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Total weight of nuclear material and bomb was 98.8 - 100.2 kg Hiroshima's "Little Boy" gravity bomb: 13–18 54–75 Gun type uranium-235 fission bomb (the first of the two nuclear weapons that have been used in warfare). 64 kg of Uranium-235, about 1.38% of the uranium fissioned Nagasaki's "Fat Man" gravity bomb 19–23 79–96
A 10-kiloton blast can deliver this much exposure within a radius of about a mile, or inside the "moderate damage zone." (Several miles away, radiation dosage drops to tens of millisieverts or ...
Death is highly likely and radiation poisoning is almost certain if one is caught in the open with no terrain or building masking effects within a radius of 0–3 kilometres (0.0–1.9 mi) from a 1 megaton airburst, and the 50% chance of death from the blast extends out to ~8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the same 1 megaton atmospheric explosion.
The website lets you select your city, pick a type of bomb and the way of delivery, and hit detonate. The map will show the blast radius broken down into fireball, air blast and thermal radiation ...
No high yield (more than c. 10 kiloton) nuclear bombs, including the extreme example of the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, are able to radiate sufficient neutrons beyond their lethal blast range when detonated as a surface burst or low altitude air burst and so are not classified as neutron bombs, thus limiting the yield of neutron bombs to a maximum ...
Updated August 10, 2017 at 10:21 AM The Cold War ended in 1991, but the looming threat of nuclear attack lives on with more than 14,900 nuclear weapons wielded by nine nations.
Capable of firing a 100 kiloton nuclear warhead a distance of 185 km American MGR-3 Little John missile, measuring 4.4. meters long with a diameter of 32 cm and a weight of 350 kg. Capable of firing a W45 warhead (10 kiloton yield) a distance of 19 km French Pluton missile circa 1970s. Capable of firing a 15 kiloton nuclear warhead a distance ...
A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device.