What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at once

There are currently about 15,000 nuclear weapons on Earth. The USA and Russia each have around 7,000. France, China, the UK, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea have about 1,000 collectively. The total explosive power of these weapons is staggering.

Let’s see what would happen if we detonated all 15,000 bombs in the Amazon rainforest:

Initial Explosion: A 50 km wide fireball would vaporize everything in its path. The shockwave would flatten 3,000 square kilometers of forest and ignite fires within a 250 km radius.

Global Effects: The explosion’s shockwave would circle the globe multiple times, launching millions of tons of debris into the atmosphere. A nuclear mushroom cloud would reach the stratosphere, and a crater about 10 km wide would form.

Radioactive Fallout: The released radioactive material would render the surrounding area uninhabitable and double global radiation levels, increasing cancer rates. It could cause a nuclear winter, lowering Earth’s temperature for years.

Total Destruction: If all uranium on Earth was used to make more bombs, the explosion would have the energy of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. This would result in a fireball visible from space, a 100 km crater, and global atmospheric heating leading to mass extinction and a prolonged nuclear winter.

Aftermath: Civilization would collapse, with few survivors facing a devastated, uninhabitable world. Earth itself would recover in a few million years, but human life would likely vanish.

This catastrophic scenario illustrates the immense destructive power of nuclear weapons and serves as a grim reminder of their potential impact on our planet and humanity.