Posted on 01/23/2006 6:39:38 AM PST by Dark Skies
Have you seen anything on the creation of tsunamis by nuclear detonation?
The article states 10 KILOton a whole order of magnitude weaker than what you are thinking of, but still something you would not want to be up close & personal with.
Thanks - I missed that reference. Earlier it says 10 megaton.
Yes; among the tin foil conspiracy theorists
Thx, I have already seen that. Looking for something a little more scientific.
"A 10 kiloton warhead detonated at ground level would do more damage then you might think. Not only would the blast destroy anything in the immediate area but it would also send out a very powerful precursor wind ahead of the main shock wave. This wind is powerful enough to lift tanks off the ground and throw them hundreds of feet downrange."
Look at the photo's of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Now cut the bomb size in half. Now look at the photo's again and note that most of the concrete or stone buildings in the blast area survived.
A bomb of that size would absolutely destroy an area about 1000 yards across. Damage after that would vary greatly based on the type of construction. Glass buildings will be whacked big time but older buildings will stand up pretty well. In addition, the comments about the scope of the serious damage seems to cover a pretty good area, at least 5 miles across. That is simply too much damage for the bomb. 2 or 3 miles from the blast is the area where damage is mostly windows and buildings already shaky.
The image of tanks being bounced around come from tests where tanks were parked within a mile of a hydrogen bomb in the megaton range, the sort of weapon we should use in retaliation.
Actually, it was not thermonuclear weapons in the megaton range. The videos of tanks being tossed around come from the Nevada Test Site where the largest device we ever detonated in atmospheric conditions was Plumbbob-Hood, 74 kilotons.
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