ICMS, Reports
By Tom Okure, Ph.D.
The US Air Force on Thursday April 13, 2017 bombed a network
of Islamic State tunnels in Afghanistan using its largest non-nuclear weapon. According
to the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, the bomb nicknamed the Mother of All
Bombs (or MOAB) killed 36 militants. The acronym MOAB actually stands for “Massive
Ordnance Air Burst.” The bomb was dropped on Thursday at around 7.32 pm Afghan local
time targeting a complex of tunnels in Achin district of Nangarhar province,
where it is alleged that an Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State group has taken
root and is operating freely near the Pakistani border.
Both the United States and the Russians have these monster
bombs in their arsenal of non-nuclear weapons. President Vladimir Putin of Russia
is said to have his own Father of all bombs at his disposal. The Russian bomb is said to be four times more
powerful than US Trump’s Mother of all bombs (MOAB) that was just dropped in Afghanistan
on Thursday.
Comparatively, Russia’s Father of all bombs is filled with explosives
said to weighs just 15,560 lbs but filled with 44 tons of explosives with
temperatures when detonated much higher than that of the US Air Force Mother of
all bombs which weighs an incredible 21,600 lbs but is said to be filled with only
11 tons of explosives. The staggering weight of the US bomb makes it bigger in size,
even though the Russian bomb is more powerful.The
accuracy of Russia's claims concerning the weapon's size and power have been
questioned by US defense analysts. Nevertheless, if the Russian bomb is as destructive in explosive power as
it is claimed to be, then the device would be the most powerful conventional
(non-nuclear) weapon that currently exist in the world.
Both the Russian and the US bombs explode in similar fashion
by annihilating anything within the blast zone, crumpling any existing buildings
and creating huge explosions and aftershocks.
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