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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
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<blockquote data-quote="HackerF15E" data-source="post: 1847815" data-attributes="member: 9689"><p>I think people seriously misunderstand the actual power and destructive mechanisms of nuclear weapons.</p><p></p><p>This was a 2 kiloton air burst from over 3 miles away. 2kt is less than 1/5 the yield of the Hiroshima bomb (which was 12-15 kilotons, depending on which reading you believe), and the destructive blast radius at Hiroshima was only about 1 mile.</p><p></p><p>Airbursts don't generate any "fallout", and at that altitude there was very likely no "mach stem" to create the really big destructive overpressure wave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HackerF15E, post: 1847815, member: 9689"] I think people seriously misunderstand the actual power and destructive mechanisms of nuclear weapons. This was a 2 kiloton air burst from over 3 miles away. 2kt is less than 1/5 the yield of the Hiroshima bomb (which was 12-15 kilotons, depending on which reading you believe), and the destructive blast radius at Hiroshima was only about 1 mile. Airbursts don't generate any "fallout", and at that altitude there was very likely no "mach stem" to create the really big destructive overpressure wave. [/QUOTE]
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