Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanical stress, the impact and penetration of pressure-driven projectiles, pressure damage, and explosion-generated effects. It's been dubbed the "mother of all bombs," or MOAB, and for good reason: It's the largest non-nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal. The Hydrogen Bomb Ivy Mike Hydrogen Bomb – Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office. The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Weapon (MOAB, known informally as the “Mother of All Bombs” and formally as the Guided Bomb Unit, or GBU, 43/B) has attracted a great deal of attention since it was dropped on ISIS fighters in eastern Afghanistan on 13 April. Nuclear fusion is a reaction that releases atomic energy by the union of light nuclei at high temperatures to form heavier atoms. Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:54 pm Sweet, How Stuff Works … How the new MOAB bomb works 30 posts Wunderhund. The bomb is reportedly similar to the US military's GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast which is often unofficially called "Mother of All Bombs" derived from its official military acronym "MOAB". Posts: 6162. Hydrogen bombs, which use nuclear fusion, have higher destructive power and greater efficiencies than atomic bombs. Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius Registered: Mar 26, 2000.

This weapon would therefore be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world. A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. On Thursday, the U.S. military dropped a MOAB bomb …