What is a weird fact you know about nuclear bombs?
You all know the United States blow up two nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on 6 and 9 August 1995 respectively. It causes to killed about 129,000 to 226,000 people. It reminds us how much nuclear bombs are weapons of mass destruction. Began with Russian and Ukraine war people has start to talk again about nuclear weapons. But what is a weird fact you know about nuclear bombs? Recently a Redditor asked this question in public.
Here is what the Reddit community thought about it.
The problem?
Here the user who asked the above problem has upvoted than 17000k within 19 hours of asking the above question.
Here are the top most upvoted answers.
Don’t use conditioner in your hair
A Redditor mentioned that we don’t use conditioner in our hair in the wake of nuclear particles. It’ll bind the radioactive material to the hair shaft.
US’s deterrent nuclear weapons
A Redditor emphasize that 54% of US’s nuclear weapons are on-board nuclear-powered submarines. And also, those submarines are capable of prowling the ocean for 70 days at a time.
During the Cold War, 32 nuclear weapons were lost
A Redditor reminds us that 32 nuclear weapons were lost in the cold war because of accidents, among them six of which were never recovered. And further, he told that 6 out of 32 lost only in the US, but no one can clearly determine if or how many the Soviets lost.
Nuclear bomb is the trigger that sets off the hydrogen bomb
A Redditor comments that a nuclear bomb is the trigger that sets off the hydrogen bomb.
So, to sum it up
According to Reddit, there are so many weird facts about nuclear bombs. It doesn’t reduce how much danger are nuclear bombs. There are some things in the world, knowing about them is cause to reduce the fear about it. But it is not acceptable for nuclear weapons.
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