# Conventional Bomb - upper size limit?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-bomb-upper-size-limit/276515
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 24, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-bomb-upper-size-limit/276515 "2004-11-24T19:43:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-bomb-upper-size-limit/276515/21 "2004-11-25T18:57:48Z")
> [@casdave](#):
>
> This is the largest conventional explosion recorded to date.
>
> Given that it involved 3.5kTons of bombs it can be directly compared to Nagasaki and Hiroshima in terms of explosive power, even if the result was diminshed by it occuring largely underground…
>
> [http://www.hanbury-village.co.uk/hanbury\_history/fauld\_disaster.htm](http://www.hanbury-village.co.uk/hanbury_history/fauld_disaster.htm)
>
> [http://www.healeyhero.info/rescue/individual/fauld.htm](http://www.healeyhero.info/rescue/individual/fauld.htm)
>
> [http://www.carolyn.topmum.net/tutbury/fauld/fauldcrater.htm](http://www.carolyn.topmum.net/tutbury/fauld/fauldcrater.htm)
:eek:
Those aerial shots in the first and third links are astonishing. That was one hell of a bang.
---
### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-bomb-upper-size-limit/276515/22 "2004-11-25T19:17:54Z")
> [@casdave](#):
>
> This is the largest conventional explosion recorded to date.
>
> Given that it involved 3.5kTons of bombs…
Mine one’s bigger than your one. According to the [Guiness Book of World Records](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=56021), the biggest conventional explosion ever was
> [@](#):
>
> for the demolition of the German fortifications at Helgoland on April 18, 1947. A charge of 4061 tonnes (8,952,961 lb) was detonated.
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conventional-bomb-upper-size-limit/276515.md?page=1)