With regard to nuclear weapons, people are afraid. There is nothing wrong with fear, nuclear weapons are a world-destroying existence in themselves. However, due to some fear, nuclear weapons have begun to be spread more and more outrageously, such as long-term nuclear pollution and no grass. This kind of exaggeration of the harm of nuclear weapons is very typical, and the nuclear pollution of nuclear explosions and nuclear pollution of nuclear leakage are confused. Let's take a look at what the place that was blown up by Ivan the Great looked like today.
Ivan the Great was a hydrogen bomb designed by the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev period with an equivalent of 100 million tons. The time was 1961, when the Soviet Union proposed a plan for a super-large nuclear bomb, which was approved by Khrushchev. The significance of the nuclear bomb was to provide a nuclear deterrent to the West in order to consolidate the Soviet Union's own position. This period was also the beginning of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, and for decades afterward, the United States and the Soviet Union competed with each other for nuclear testing.
At the time of the test explosion, the Soviet Union took into account some political, diplomatic, nuclear pollution and other problems, and reduced the equivalent of Ivan the Great from 100 million tons to 50 million tons. The weight of the final finished Ivan the Great is 27 tons, 8 meters long and 2.1 meters in diameter. The throwing work was carried out by a converted bomber of the Figure 95, and the fuel tank and the bomb hatch in the belly were removed to perform the task. The throwing location was chosen to reach the west coast of Newland Island in the Arctic Ocean.
This Newland Island itself did not only test detonate a large Ivan, but during the Cold War, Newland Island was one of the two main nuclear test sites of the Soviet Union. Novaya Zeitung Island was designated a nuclear test site by the Soviet Union in 1954, and in 1957, before the nuclear tests began, 298 people inhabited by Novaya Zemlya were transferred to the mainland. The Soviet Union set up three test sites on Zentland Island, namely Zone A, Zone B and Zone C. Ivan the Great was tested in Zone C. In fact, the Soviet Union did not only conduct nuclear tests in these three regions, but also had test explosions in various places on The New Lands.
Novaya Zemlya existed as a nuclear test site until 1990, since which the Soviet Union/Russia has not conducted any nuclear tests. During its time as a nuclear test site, SHKP experienced a total of 224 nuclear explosions, with a combined equivalent of 265 million tons.
After the end of the Cold War, Russia also stopped nuclear tests on Novaya Zemlya. So, after more than 200 nuclear explosions, what is the situation on Newland Island? Has there been any grass, long-term nuclear pollution, and long-term nuclear radiation after experiencing a nuclear explosion, as many people say? Unfortunately, NYV is currently inhabited.
The largest settlement on Novaya Sindh is located on the west coast of the southern section of Shintema, a small town called Belucia Cuba. In the 2021 census, There were 2,861 people living in Belucia Cuba, which is about 80% of the total population of Novaya. The area is mainly inhabited by Russian troops, and the local residents are also military dependents of the Russian army, with residential buildings, schools, hotels, shops, and even television stations and radio stations.
The town of Belucia Cuba is located dozens of kilometers from the A test site, 250 kilometers from the test site of Ivan the Great, and 220 kilometers from area B.
In 2019, the town was also invaded by polar bears. About fifty polar bears broke into the town, rushed into residential areas, schools, etc., and even directly rushed into residential buildings and entered the corridors. As a result, local residents dare not go out, and parents dare not let their children go to school.
To the north of Novaya Zemlya is the Russian Arctic National Park established by Russia. The area is one of the largest bird habitats in the Northern Hemisphere and is also home to seal walruses. And this place is a tourist attraction, many Europeans go to Novaya Zemlya every year. The tourist route from Helsinki in Finland to Novaya Zemlya costs more than $10,000.
Novaya Zemlya has always been the largest source of radioactive pollution in the Arctic, and many radioactive materials have been detected in the melting glaciers of the Arctic, and the pollution sources are high. But these sources of radioactive contamination have not had much impact on the local population, and Russia has been cleaning up the waters around Novaya Zemlya.
After more than 200 nuclear explosions, Newland Island still maintains a vibrant appearance, and human beings cannot live, organisms cannot survive, and there is no grass. Those nuclear tests in the Soviet Union at that time were casually thrown Away Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions more than a dozen streets at a time.
The nuclear pollution generated by a nuclear explosion is not the same as the nuclear pollution produced by a nuclear leakage. This is the difference between Chernobyl and Novaya Zemlya, and until now Chernobyl still has to wear protective clothing to go in, and the creatures of Novaya Zemlya, who walk around casually, do not need these protections.
Even in Chernobyl, there is no such thing as no grass
Many times, many of the harms of nuclear explosions are rumored to be false, and in the end, they are more and more outrageous. From nuclear pollution, all the way to the nuclear winter. In fact, nuclear winter is just a conjecture of some scientists after the nuclear explosion, and in addition to nuclear winter, there is actually a nuclear summer conjecture. Which one should I believe?