What if a nuclear bomb hits your own city? In the image above: Yellow circle: Fireball radius. Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on the height of detonation. Red circle: Air blast radius (20 psi). Heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged...
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 contamination from long-lived radioactive isotopes like strontium-90 or cesium-137, w...
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, ignite
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