Whatever pacifist worldviewthe leader of the state, to worry about the safety of its citizens is considered one of its most important duties. Peace can be achieved only by skillfully deterring potential adversaries. To ensure the safety of citizens can only the leader of the state, in service of which there is the most powerful weapon in the world. Its very presence inspires respect for potential aggressors. Therefore, today the major countries acquire the most powerful weapons. In the world, the most dangerous weapon is nuclear. Today there are ten states on the planet with nuclear reserves. As the current situation has shown, the opinion of their leaders is always listened to. The desire to be friends with them or, at least, not to quarrel is a completely explainable line of conduct for the heads of countries that do not have such an advantage.
In the entire history of its development, humanityconstantly inventing new and new ways to kill each other. Already during the Middle Ages, considerable success was achieved in this area. Before the invention of gunpowder weapons were cold. But already at that time, man had samples aimed at a massive defeat.
В древние века это было самое сильное холодное weapon The principle of its operation was to raise the enemy ram as high as possible and throw it down. For this purpose, special hooks for grabbing the enemy were provided for in the design of the weapon. At some point, the hooks opened, enemy soldiers fell to the ground and broke. The Archimedes Claw was used to raise and throw logs at the enemy, and also as a lever for turning over enemy ships.
Scientific progress has left the "Archimedes Claw" in the distant past, in exchange for providing mankind with far more effective methods of mass destruction of each other.
За всю свою историю человечество нередко the question was: what is the most powerful weapon that can be used to massively hit the enemy? It is generally accepted that the most powerful is a nuclear weapon. But those who are interested should be aware that today the following types of means of killing a person by a person are classified as “weapons of mass destruction”:
Each species is distinguished from others by its principle of action and characteristic features. Unites their unconditional efficiency and powerful force of influence.
Surely many who wondered aboutWhat is the most powerful weapon in the world, they will answer that the 100-megaton hydrogen bomb contains a very terrible and destructive force. For the first time about such weapons officially started talking in 1963.
"Tsar-bomb", or as it was called "Kuzkinamother ”, was tested on Novaya Zemlya one and a half years before Nikita Khrushchev officially announced that there were such powerful weapons in the USSR. Compared with the American thermonuclear bomb, the Soviet was four times more powerful. Testing it, the scientists noted that the “king-bomb” exploded three minutes after it was dropped from a bomber. The height of the nuclear mushroom was 67 km, and the fireball had a radius of 5.6 km. The shock wave circled the globe three times. The created ionization for more than thirty minutes interfered with the radio communication for several hundred kilometers. At the epicenter of the explosion, the heat turned the stones to ash. At the end of the test, the experts concluded that the “tsar-bomb” is a “pure” weapon, since its capacity of 97% fell on the reaction of thermonuclear fusion without creating radioactive contamination.
In July 1945, the first atomic bomb Gadget based on plutonium was tested by Americans under Alamogordo. In the same year in August, she was dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This event showed the world the factthe presence of the United States most powerful weapons. Five years later, the leadership of the USSR also officially declared the presence of such atomic weapons, which in their destructive power is not inferior to the American ones.
In the history of mankind for the first time it wasused in 1915 by German troops against Russian soldiers. Of the special cylinders, a huge cloud of chlorine was released, resulting in the death of five thousand people, another 15 thousand were severely poisoned.
During the Second World War, chemical weapons usedalso Japan. By bombarding Chinese cities, Japanese troops fired about a thousand chemical shells. As a result of the poisoning, 50 thousand people died.
Chemical weapons were also used by Americanstime of the Vietnam War. The use of American toxic agents did not leave both the military and civilians no chance of salvation. During the period of military conflict, the United States troops sprayed 72 million liters of defoliants. American chemical weapons contained a mixture of dioxin, entailing diseases of the blood, liver and deformities in newborns. About five million people suffered from chemical weapons used by the United States in this war. Complications and health problems remained after its completion.
It was first tested by the USA in 2010 onCalifornia landfills. Using a laser gun, whose power was 32 megawatts, the Americans managed to shoot down four UAVs from a distance of 3 thousand meters. The advantages of laser weapons include:
This weapon was known as early as 1500 BC.e. His strength was used by many armies. Often, the soldiers piled up enemy fortresses with infected corpses. There is a perception that the ulcers mentioned in the Bible are nothing but the consequences of the use of biological weapons.
Одной из его современных разновидностей является the use of various viruses. In 2001, the most dangerous of these was the anthrax virus, which is extracted from the spores of the deadly bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Infection of a person occurs as a result of contact with a given dispute or its inhalation. Today there are 22 cases of human infection with anthrax. Five infected died.
Compared with other types of fundsmass destruction, this weapon, invented by American scientists, many experts consider one of the most "moral". The destruction of only living organisms is a characteristic feature of the neutron bomb. This is due to the fact that as a result of the explosion, only 20% of the energy is generated in the shock wave. While in atomic weapons, 50% is allocated to the shock wave. Despite the proposal of the leadership of the USSR, such weapons should be considered banned, among the heads of Western countries, this appeal remained without support. Neutron charges began to be created in America in 1981.
Scientific progress has given mankind many types of weapons of powerful destructive power. Among them, a special place is occupied by nuclear as the most powerful weapon in the world.
In the rating of countries with nuclear potential:
According to many military experts and scientists,Smerch rocket launcher is the second most powerful weapon of Russia after a nuclear bomb. In order to bring this MLRS into a state of combat, no more than three minutes is enough.
A full salvo takes half a minute to complete. The 12-barrel "Smerch" is able to hit modern tanks and any other armored vehicles. The management of "Tornado" is carried out in two ways:
The core of the strategic missile force groupDestination became the Topol-M missile system (modernized). The weapon is a three-stage monoblock solid-fuel rocket, which is contained in a special transport-launch container. In it, she can stay up to twenty years. A characteristic feature of this missile complex is the theoretical possibility of replacing its entire head part with a warhead, which is divided into three independent parts. Due to this, the Topol-M becomes invulnerable to many air defense systems.
According to currently availableagreements, military engineers of the Russian Federation, this replacement is not allowed. However, in the light of recent events, it is possible that these agreements will be revised.
Russia is a country in which to modernizestrategic and tactical nuclear forces are allocated huge funds. The possession of the Russian Federation by conventional nuclear weapons and systems with nuclear components in recent years has been an effective counterweight to NATO countries.
