Russia to test unstoppable Satan 2 stealth nuke capable of wiping out an ENTIRE NATIONRussia is preparing to test fire a nuclear weapon which is so powerful it could reportedly destroy a whole country in seconds. The Satan 2 missile is rumoured to be the most powerful ever designed and is equipped with stealth technology to help it dodge enemy radar systems. This terrifying doomsday weapon is likely to strike fear into the hearts of Western military chiefs, as current missile defence technology is totally incapable of stopping it. Its official name is the RS 2. Sarmat and it will replace aging Soviet R 3. M missiles, which NATO military experts nicknamed Satan. In this sense, the Sarmat missile will not only become the R 3. Ms successor, but also to some extent it will determine in which direction nuclear deterrence in the world will develop, the Russian news network Zvezda reported. 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The greatest minds of the military industrial complex have spent the past century devising ever more destructive weapons. Devastated Christmas Island during a nuclear bomb test Image Sunday MirrorRead more Vladimir Putins all female miniskirt army display their strength in sexist military parade. We have used an online tool called Nuke Map to sketch out the potential death toll of each weapon if it was dropped on St Pauls Cathedral in London and the results are truly horrifying. In our timeline of terror, we show the horrifying development of modern nuclear weapons, which are now so powerful they can wipe out an entire city in seconds and render much of a country uninhabitable. Here are historys most famous nuclear weapons along with the devastating effect they would have on the British capital. Little Boy. Read more Apocalypse on the wayScientists fear asteroids, killer robots and deadly diseases could wipe out humanity. This is the disarmingly named bomb which was devised during the Manhattan Project and then dropped on Hiroshima. It exploded with the force of 1. TNT, wiping out much of the Japanese city. The bomb worked by firing a slug of highly refined uranium into a larger lump of the same element, causing a nuclear blast. When it exploded in the sky over Hiroshima, it destroyed more or less everything within a radius of a mile of the point of detonation. Real death toll An estimated 8. First Lightning. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed, Stalin ordered Russian scientists to build him a nuclear bomb. Working in a facility called the Kurchatov Institute which was referred to only as the office or base in official communications Soviet scientists were able to build a weapon in less than five years. The RDS 1, or First Lightning, was then tested in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakhstan on 9 August 1. It detonated with a similar force to Americas bombs and sparked the nuclear arms race, leading to the creation of weapons with an almost unimaginable destructive force. Estimated death toll 6. Operation Hurricane. This is the codename given to the first British nuclear weapons test, which took place on October 3 1. Montebello Islands in Western Australia. Westminster was terrified that a weapon could be put in a boat and sailed right up the Thames, so it tested the British bomb aboard a 1,3. HMS Plym. More than 1,0. British men were forced to strip to the waist and watch the test, causing many to suffer cancers and radiation linked diseases later in their lives. In 2. 00. 2, the Sunday Mirror launched a campaign seeking official recognition of the horrific effects the nuclear bomb tests had on British servicemen. Estimated death toll 7. Ivy Mike Image ReutersRead more Dinosaurs were ALREADY dying out before a giant asteroid finished them off, scientist claims. This 8. 2 tonne American weapon was the size of a building and was so powerful scientists feared detonating it would ignite the whole of Earths atmosphere killing everything on the planet. It was the worlds first thermonuclear device which used a fusion reaction to cause a blast, leading it to be called the hydrogen bomb or H bomb. This truly terrifying weapon was tested on October 3. Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, where it blew up a hole in the ground which was 5. Although the bomb was too large to be practically used as a weapon, it led to the creation of a number of small, horrifically powerful H bombs. Estimated death toll 2,3. Tsar Bomba. This is the most powerful weapon ever tested and its name means The Tsar of Bombs, although the Russians officially called it AN6. It was tested on October 3. World War II or roughly 1,5. Nagasaki and Hiroshima weapons combined. When it was exploded on an island in the Arctic Sea, the bomb destroyed wooden houses hundreds of miles from the blast and generated a fireball so powerful it could cause third degree burns to a person more than 6. Perhaps most worryingly, this appalling weapon could be dropped by a bomber jet, meaning it could have easily been used to wipe out Western cities. Estimated death toll 5,7. Modern nuclear weapons Image GettyRead more Kim Jong un vows North Korea WONT use nuclear weapons unless they are invaded. As youre reading this, there are about 1. American, Russia, Britain, France, China, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. Weve used Nuke Map to estimate the destructive power of several of these nations most powerful nukes as well as the sort of bomb a terrorist would be likely to use. Estimated death toll of contemporary nuclear weapons. Nuke Mappoll loading. Are you scared of nuclear warVOTES SO FARYESNO.