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 ZippoZ
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 okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? 
#5824295 - 07/05/06 04:34 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I mean really, we all hear about 300 mile wide craters and nuclear winter, but what are the real world effects, explosively , and radioactively from a 50 megaton nuclear weapon?
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: ZippoZ]
#5824310 - 07/05/06 04:39 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was 50MT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: Mezcal]
#5824339 - 07/05/06 04:45 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The end of this video shows the possible damage caused by the explosion of this type of bomb.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2046393742348211186
Keep in mind that there's not much chance of this thing hitting us, as it's fucking huge and couldn't be put on a missle.
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: Mezcal]
#5824399 - 07/05/06 05:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"
"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: ZippoZ]
#5826605 - 07/06/06 04:29 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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> now the question is how large are missile mounted weapons?
Pretty small. Typically in the 100kt to 300kt range per warhead with each missle having multiple and independent warheads. Research and testing show that lower yield bombs, in the 60kt to 80kt range, are optimal. Much of the energy of larger bombs is wasted moving earth rather than destorying or killing. For this same reason, among others, an air blast will always be more powerful than a ground level blast. If the fireball hits the earth, destructive energy has been wasted. A terrorist bomb going off in the back of a truck will be much less effective than the same bomb going off at 350m above the ground.
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: Seuss]
#5826898 - 07/06/06 08:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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interesting, so now lets move on to how bad a nuclear attack would be.
assuming we are dealing with an allout misile attack U.S v.s. Russia,
using these low yeild warheads (although by no means are they insignificant)
Are we talking nuclaer winter, how long will the radiation last and be a threat?
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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"
"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: okay, so how much explosive force would a 50 megaton nuclear weapon actually have? [Re: ZippoZ]
#5826939 - 07/06/06 08:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It has been estimated that 100 megatons worth of warheads being detonated in a nuclear war would be enough to wipe out most life on Earth from the after effects of radiation and nuclear winter. I will try to find the reference for this when I get home. I am pretty sure it comes from Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes, but I cannot recall his original source.
Nobody really knows how long a nuclear winter will last. It could be years, it could be decades, it could be centuries. The radiation is also difficult to predict. Hot areas could remain too hot for human life for many tens of thousands of years, but most of the really, really nasty stuff will be mostly gone in a few hundred years.
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