The earth quake bomb concept was invented by Barnes Wallis before the Second World War. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE, FRS, RDI, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Wallis realized that the force of an explosion is quickly diminished in a compressible medium. In the compressible medium of air, the explosive power diminishes rapidly with distance.

In water it diminishes less quickly, but the explosive force carries much further through solid materials, such as soil and other materials on the earth's surface.

Wallis' idea was to drop a large heavy bomb with a hard armoured tip at supersonic speed so that it penetrated the ground. This effect would be rather like a ten ton bullet being fired straight down. It was then set to explode underground, and the resulting shock wave would produce the equivalent of a miniature earthquake, destroying any nearby structures such as dams, railways, viaducts, etc.

Wallis forsaw that German industry would have to be disrupted, and also understood that precision bombing was virtually impossible in the late 1930s.

The earthquake bomb would have the ability to disrupt German industry and cause minimum civilian casualties.

Wallis wanted a ten ton bomb that would explode some 130 ft underground. To achieve this the bomb would have had to have been dropped from 40,000 feet. At this time the RAF had no aircraft capable of holding a single ten ton bomb let alone taking it that high. Wallis designed a six engine plane for the task, called Victory, but was not taken seriously by the military top brass of the day. Later in the war bombs were made based on the 'earth quake bomb concept' such as the Tallboy and Grand Slam, although these were never dropped from more than about 25,000 feet. The Victory Bomber was a design by Barnes Wallis for a bomber that could carry a single large earthquake bomb. ... Tallboy bomb The Tallboy was an Earth Quake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. ... A British 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) Grand Slam bomb The Grand Slam (Earth Quake bomb), was a very large freefall bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis (who also made the bouncing bomb) in late 1944. ...

After World War II the United States developed the 43,600 lb T12 demolition bomb that was designed to create an earth quake effect. T-12 shell at the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland. ...

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See also

• Bunker buster