Eric Rozier has an on-line calculator for nuclear weapons. Eric Henry has a spreadsheet that does nuclear blast calculations, including shaped charges, on his website. For bomb blasts on the surface of the Earth or other planet with an atmosphere, you can use the handy-dandy Nuclear Bomb ...
Johnny manages to get into the bomb room, and has about fifteen minutes to sabotage all the bombs.) Or they could drill a hole, let out the air, and open, the door without wrecking the lock. Or Towers might even have a new airlock built outside the old. Not likely, Johnny thought;...
The good news for antimatter bomb makers is that electron-positron annihilations create flaming death in the form of a pair of deadly gamma rays. However, this is tempered by the unfortunate fact that electrons and positrons are approximately 1/1836 the mass of protons and other nucleons, and...
At near light speeds hitting a dust speck will be like a contact explosion from a thermonuclear bomb. Indeed, individual protons will be transformed into deadly cosmic rays. Relativity Einstein's theory of Special Relativity is an incredibly complicated topic, and I don't pretend to understand ...
Not a bomb rocket, it was too high. He noted that the (coelostat) images were steady and stole a glance, first at his own screen, which told him nothing, and then through the starboard port. Good heavens! he could see it! A great gleaming star against the black of space … growing...
Spore-bomb: The green oval fell and struck the ground. A kind of greenish fog swirled outwards and vanished almost as soon as it had appeared... As soon as the ovoid started falling, the others had started to run but none got clear. Before they had taken twenty paces, their skins and...