Iran has vowed "terrible revenge" for the killing of General Qasim Solaimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' al-Quds Force, in a US airstrike on Thursday. After that, the country also flew the red flag of war on the top of the holy mosque.
On the other hand, the United States has also declared that it is ready for war. That is why international political analysts fear another war in the Middle East.
How capable is Iran in terms of military power to avenge the assassination of Solaimani? Such questions are now on everyone's lips.
Military experts say Iran ranks 14th in military power. The country has a very strong position in the Middle East. Therefore, Iran has the power to take the United States, which is strong in military power, one-handed.
However, Iran claims to be the world's fourth largest missile power after the United States, Russia and China.
The United States, on the other hand, is the world's top military power. Two of the most powerful weapons in the world. Atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. The United States has both. None of which belongs to Iran.
The power of the atomic bomb is universal. But even more powerful is the hydrogen bomb. Now the question is, what are these atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs?
What happened when America dropped Little Boy and Fat Man on Japan during World War II is not unknown to anyone. Both were atomic bombs. These bombs are made in the process of nuclear fusion. When a bomb explodes, it breaks down uranium or plutonium atoms in its center. Energy is created from there. The world has already seen the consequences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This bomb (atomic bomb) was first tested in the desert. The place was in New Mexico, USA. Day, July 16, 1945. This was the biggest step of the Manhattan Project (a research project during World War II. The United States started it in collaboration with Britain and Canada). The countries in the project thought Nazi Germany had a similar plan.
On August 8, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The name of the bomb was Little Boy. The blast killed about 140,000 people. But the situation does not end here. Hiroshima still has its effects. Exactly 3 days later, America dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. 74,000 people died there. The energy generated by the detonation of these two bombs is equivalent to about 20,000 TNT (tri nitro toluene).
The Soviet Union was the second country to carry out a nuclear explosion. They detonated an atomic bomb in 1949. Britain is the third country to test an atomic bomb. China, France, India, North Korea and Pakistan all have nuclear bombs today. They declined to say whether Israel had the bomb.
Hydrogen bombs are more powerful than atomic bombs. Another name for it is the thermonuclear bomb. These bombs work in the form of nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen. The heat generated by the explosion is equal to the energy in the sun. So far the hydrogen bomb has not been used in any war.
Hydrogen bombs explode in two processes. At first there was a nuclear explosion. This generates a lot of heat. It then ignites nuclear fusion. The whole process caused a huge explosion.
The U.S. military tested the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. It is 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb. A year later, the Soviet Union detonated its own hydrogen bomb. The year was 1971. They detonated a hydrogen bomb called the Tassar bomb. The blast generated about 56 megatons of energy. However, no hydrogen bomb has been detonated in any war so far.
