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  Acute Observer February 16, 2015 at 12:06pm

  No, a nuke produces a much brighter flash than that.
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  Tally February 14, 2015 at 10:39pm

  I didn't watch these blasted blast-offs... but i know it's time to put a damper on this nonsense.
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  Pet Rock February 14, 2015 at 3:59pm

  Thermobaric weapon

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  Blast from a US Navy fuel air explosive used against a decommissioned ship, USSMcNulty, 1972

  A thermobaric weapon is a type of explosivethat utilizes oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense, high-temperature explosion, and in practice the blast wave such a weapon produces is typically significantly longer in duration than a conventional condensed explosive. The fuel-air bomb is one of the most well-known types of thermobaric weapons.

  Father of All Bombs

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  "The Father of All Bombs" (FOAB)
  Fireball blast from the Russian "Father of All Bombs", with the beginnings of a mushroom cloud
  Type	Thermobaric bomb
  Place of origin	Russia
  Service history
  Used by	Russian Air Force
  Production history
  Designer	Russian Military
  Produced	2007
  Number built	100
  Specifications
  Weight	7,100 kg (15,650 lb)
  Filling	High explosive and finealuminium powder andethylene oxide mix.
  Blast yield	44 tons TNT / 80,000 Ibs

  Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP) (Russian:Авиационная вакуумная бомба повышенной мощности (АВБПМ)), nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" (FOAB) (Отец всех бомб), is a Russian-made air-delivered/land-activated thermobaric weapon. In describing the bomb's destructive power, Russian deputy chief of thegeneral staff Alexander Rukshin was quoted as saying, "all that is alive merely evaporates."^[1] The bomb is reportedly four times as powerful as the US military's GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (whose official military acronym "MOAB" is often colloquially called the "Mother of All Bombs" as a backronym). This Russian device would therefore be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world.^[2] The veracity of Russia's claims concerning the weapon's size and power have been questioned by US defense analysts.^[3]

  The bomb was successfully field-tested in the late evening of September 11, 2007.^[4] The new weapon is to replace several smaller types ofnuclear bombs in its arsenal.^[5]