Asteroid Impacts on Earth More Powerful than Nuclear Bomb | Video

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 14:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Between 2000 and 2013, 26 explosions ranging from 1-600 kilotons have been detected by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization's network of sensors. The bomb that decimated Hiroshima had an energy equivalent of 15 kilotons.

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