How powerful is a nuclear bomb?

[アキウアラ]

Is nuclear bomb that devastating, once it hits the ground like can it wipe out the whole country, due to it's radiation?

[Γαῖα]

Цитата допису eram:

Цитата допису Γαῖα:

Compared to what OP ?

a nuclear bomb of course

its about the same as 1 nuclear bomb.

If thats the case then considering the initial impact threshold and rate of transformation there after, not that powerful.
Nukes while inconvenient are yesterdays news paper and most certainly not a destroyer of a single one let alone worlds.

[levet.byck]

i think it depends on what type of rockformation you want to explode
> yes, rocks are people, people are coral reefs, reefs.., tidal waves, drift wood, beach sand, palm tree huts, roasted boar, sun screen

[eram]

Цитата допису levet.byck:

i think it depends on what type of rockformation you want to explode

the type of rock made of out of people.

[Kobs]

How powerful is a nuclear bomb?

Over a city like New York, can you imagine a million peoples with not enough time to say Oh Sh** before they're vaporized, not counting the radiation deaths 100 miles around the zero point. because let's face it you don't use a nuke to mine ore (1 megaton is a million tons of TNT) Hiroshima was 15 kilotons 15 thousand tons of TNT exploding all at once

[Chavasse]

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Have a go on here, you can drag the pointer to your location and set off most of the common devices. Will show fireball, thermal/blast radius and ionising radiation

[captainwiseass]

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 unleashed around 63,000,000,000,000 joules of energy.

The bombs we have now are a lot stronger than that.

[RRW359]

In responce to OP, it depends.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Цитата допису Q-T_3.14.exe:

I dream of a day when I develop a nuclear weapon to surpass the Tsar Bomba. :theDoge:

The 50mt one that was tested or the 100mt one that was designed? There isn't really a limit to how large a bomb like that can get but between the impracticality of a bomb that large, improvements in computers that decrease the need for high-yeild weapons, and treaties that mean even if someone came up with a larger design they wouldn't be likely to reveal it to the public, there's no reason to build a bigger one.

[Amuro0079]

Цитата допису steven1mac:

The Alpha radiation although the most deadly is the easiest to block, but nuclear explosives had a whole band of radiation, so it is still advisable to leave the area for a while. That being said, you should be able to move back in a city with a month after being nuked, although your cancer rates will be higher there then the surround areas.

Alpha radiation is only deadly if you swallow, inhale the source and it emits alpha particles from within you. Externally, it's nothing, can't even pass through your skin. Gamma rays are much more deadly overall.

[Birds]

They destroy infrastructure and leave enough radiation to kill quickly for a few days and slowly for a few decades. Quickly involves turning into liquid while skin sloughs off over 24-72 hours. Slow is guaranteed inoperable tumor by age 50.

If you were standing 15 feet from it you’d be more likely to be decapitated and sent into the stratosphere than burnt or irradiated.

It’s a predominantly concussive force which burns and irradiates everything that isn’t ejected from the blast zone. Tons of stories of people outside the heat zone getting blown out of their house and landing safely on an air pillow amidst another destroyed house.

Biggest danger is just nuclear dust clouds forming and moving around, which becomes more likely as air bursters with high yields become more common. Tsar research was stopped for fear of basically the exact scenario presented in Doctor Strangelove: the nuclear death cloud any old dictatorship could fart out with a sub critical reactor. In theory a strong enough bomb would shunt radioactive particles right out of the atmosphere and radiation damage would be limited to the initial detonation’s shockwave rather than the lingering fart.

Methods of widespread distribution of industrially produced landmines create more long term barriers to land usage, and continue to subject people to immediate and visibly gruesome consequences for a long time afterwards.

The threat of nuclear weapons revolves around the existence of underdeveloped economies who might decide to make dirty bombs in response to global economic oppression.

The real danger and fear here is enfranchising poor people; because that’s what would be necessary to make nukes a non issue.

[Drab]

Powerful enough to unclog the most recalcitrant toilet.

[Pieshaman]

Цитата допису Amuro0079:

Цитата допису steven1mac:

The Alpha radiation although the most deadly is the easiest to block, but nuclear explosives had a whole band of radiation, so it is still advisable to leave the area for a while. That being said, you should be able to move back in a city with a month after being nuked, although your cancer rates will be higher there then the surround areas.

Alpha radiation is only deadly if you swallow, inhale the source and it emits alpha particles from within you. Externally, it's nothing, can't even pass through your skin. Gamma rays are much more deadly overall.

yes but in reality most alpha particles go hand in hand with beta emitting waves (assuming they highly charged alpha particles from a weapon) and they will also come with gamma photon emission
these alpha pariticles also highly increase the chance of breaking dna if they came inside your body one way or the other.

[Your_White_Knight]

Цитата допису Dark-en-San:

How powerful is a nuclear bomb?

Is nuclear bomb that devastating, once it hits the ground like can it wipe out the whole country, due to it's radiation?

Depends on it's size and what it's made of... and when it goes off, above, at, or under the ground

[kilésengati]

Not strong enough to destroy my Nokia.

[CinnamonApples]

powerful enough to scare all of hawaii

[aqua star]

Not as devastating as media portrays it.