1 All brake components are contained within the confines of the drum.  You could get a car with drums on all 4 wheels until the early 1970âs. Now, youâll usually see drums on the rear axles of economy cars and trucks.
The largest nuclear explosion was the great âTsar Bombaâ. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Originally planned to be 100 megatons, it was actually scaled down to 50 megatons due to technical problems with detonation and due to concerns with fallout.he explosion was equal to 1,400 times the combined power of the two atomic bombs used in WW2. It would have caused 3rd degree burns 62 miles away and the mushroom cloud was 7 times higher than Mount Everest. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland.
Atomic Bomb. The atomic bomb was first used in warfare at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and the bomb played a key role in ending World War Two. The atomic bomb (A bomb), created via the Manhattan Project, was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945.A reconstruction of âLittle Boyâ at the Imperial War Museum. The bomb that dropped on Hiroshima was code-named âLittle Boyâ.The amount of energy âLittle Boyâ generated when it exploded was the equivalent of a 15 kiloton TNT explosion â yet the above photograph shows that the bomb itself was relatively small despite its huge explosive capability.he atomic bomb (A bomb), created via the Manhattan Project, was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945.