Nuclear weapons produce enormous explosive energy. Their significance may best be appreciated by the coining of the wordskiloton(1,000 tons) andmegaton(1,000,000 tons) to describe their blast energy in equivalent weights of theconventionalchemical explosiveTNT. For example, the atomic bomb dropped...
You canuse the same interactive mapNewsweek did to "nuke" the city of your choice and see the results based on different types of bombs and detonations. Just drag the cursor to the city you want and fill in the blanks. The results will show up below the form. Worst Places to Be in ...
Thebombmight have a yield, or explosive strength, of only one kiloton, a fraction of the 15-kiloton explosion that devastatedHiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Its blast and heat effects would be confined to an area of only a few hundred metres in radius, but within a somewhat larger radius of...
They set off a nuclear blast similar to the Nuclear Shell or Nuclear Depth Charge, which like them is capable of killing whole swarms, or destroying entire submarines in one hit. Function Nuclear Depth Decoys can be placed in Depth Charge Loaders to be used as ammunition for the linked ...
According to an online simulation created by Alex Wellerstein at the Stevens Institute of Technology (it’s interactive, scary, and fun), a 10-kiloton bomb would produce a fireball with a radius of 500 to 650 feet. Shock wave: After the fireball comes the shock wave, or air blast. ...
Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who participated in the production of the first atomic bomb (1945) and who led the development of the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. Teller was from a family of prospe