Most of the bomb-produced radionuclides decay rapidly. Even so, beyond the blast radius of the exploding weapons there would be areas (“hot spots”) the survivors could not enter. Why? Because of radioactive c
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
neutron bomb, specialized type of nuclear weapon that would produce minimal blast and heat but would release large amounts of lethal radiation. A neutron bomb is actually a small thermonuclear bomb in which a few kilograms of plutonium or uranium, ignited by a conventional explosive, would serve...
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