Interesting facts about weapons in history

Kalashnikov assault rifle became the absolute leader in use in the world. The nuclear collapse was very close. All US nuclear missiles had one simple code."Molotov Cocktail" is named after the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Well, now we learn that it hides in itself each of these facts.

Automatic record-holder

The famous Kalashnikov assault rifle( AK-47), which was created in 1947, is the most massive weapon on the planet, this fact was even recorded by the Guinness Book of Records. It is worth noting that the first modification of the machine was popular, the subsequent introduction and refinement of the weapon was no longer as popular as the "pioneer".


Nuclear shells

How do you imagine nuclear weapons? Surely a picture pops up in the head with a flying airplane, which throws off a huge bomb. Nevertheless, until a certain time in the armament of the armies there were nuclear artillery shells that were launched from special artillery installations. At the moment, in the course of disarmament after the end Cold War, this type of weapons was eliminated.

Peaceful nuclear explosion

Despite the fact that nuclear weapons were developed for military purposes, it was used more for peaceful purposes. For example, nuclear explosions were used to create the deepest repositories and minerals. Nevertheless, despite the benefits to society of such explosions, they had harmful consequences for the environment. In addition to violating the conditions created by nature, there was a contamination of the earth with radiation. In the USSR, more than a hundred such "peaceful explosions" were conducted, in the United States - 27.

A step from the nuclear war

There have been 2 cases in history when the world approached the nuclear war as closely as possible. The first case occurred in the US, it was 1979.In one of the Pentagon's computers, a training program was mistakenly launched, which launched an emulation of a nuclear strike across the United States. Since the satellites were not associated with this program, they did not reveal the launch of nuclear missiles, which actually saved the world from a nuclear catastrophe.

The second case occurred in the USSR 4 years after the curious case in the US.The satellite tracking system failed and by mistake sent a message to the dispatcher's console about the nuclear strike by America. The dispatcher, having analyzed the nature of the "strikes", decided not to inform the leadership about this, since based on the analysis, the US would not have been the first to strike such small forces.

Nagasaki is just out of luck

The infamous cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have become the target of a nuclear strike by the Americans. But in fact the city of Nagasaki was a backup option. The first target of the strike was the city of Hiroshima, the second according to plan was Kokura, but due to very poor visibility the pilot decided to strike a backup plan and the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

"Reliable" code

In the era of the beginning of the production of nuclear missiles, the command introduced an additional protection mechanism against accidental launch. To do this, before launching the missile it was necessary to enter a special code.

It would seem that everything is right: thus, from the erroneous launch of a terrible rocket, hundreds of lives can be saved, but everything turned out to be rather prosaic. The total number of missiles numbering 1,000 battle heads had one launch code: "00000000" - 8 zeros. A very simple code was invented in order to quickly enter it and immediately open fire.

This "secret code" was known to every officer, that is, a large number of soldiers. But realizing this error in 17 years, it was fixed, for each rocket from now on it was set up its own personal code.

"Molotov Cocktail"

The famous "Molotov cocktail" has a rather interesting history of finding its name. There is an opinion that Molotov is the creator of the recipe for preparing this cocktail, but this is a great error.

Molotov is Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.During the Finnish war, Russian soldiers actively used incendiary mixtures in bottles, as well as aerial bombs. In one of his interviews Molotov said that the army does not use any aerial bombs, but, on the contrary, delivers food to people in Finland who are starving. After that, bombs in Finland began to be called "Molotov's basket", and Molotov's breads with incendiary mixture. In view of the active propaganda at that time, the name "Molotov's bread" was changed into a Molotov cocktail.