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Bombs typically rupture within 30 seconds to half an hour, dependent largely on the temperature of the air outside the bottle. [1] A dry ice bomb may develop frost on its exterior prior to explosion. [1] After explosion, it appears to have shattered, with the overall shape of the device intact. [1]
In mid-September 1954, nuclear bombing tests were performed at the Totskoye proving ground during the training exercise Snezhok (Russian: Снежок, Snowball or Light Snow) with some 45,000 people, all Soviet soldiers and officers, [3] who explored the explosion site of a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Nagasaki nine years earlier.
Car bomb: A vehicle is packed with explosives and detonated. Cluster bomb: Over a hundred nations outlaw them now. The first one was Butterfly Bomb: Germany: General-purpose bomb: Glide bomb: Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser ...
The 1951 Shot Uncle of Operation Buster-Jangle, had a yield about a tenth of the 13 to 16 Kt Hiroshima bomb, 1.2 Kt, [193] and was detonated 5.2 m (17 ft) beneath ground level. [194] No thermal flash of heat energy was emitted to the surroundings in this shallow buried test. [193] The explosion resulted in a cloud that rose to 3.5 km (11,500 ft ...
The optimum height of burst to maximize this desired severe ground range destruction for a 1 kt bomb is 0.22 km; for 100 kt, 1 km; and for 10 Mt, 4.7 km. Two distinct, simultaneous phenomena are associated with the blast wave in the air: Static overpressure, i.e., the sharp increase in pressure exerted by the shock wave. The overpressure at any ...
Since the E1 component of nuclear EMP depends on the prompt gamma-ray output, which was only 0.1% of yield in Starfish Prime but can be 0.5% of yield in low-yield pure nuclear fission weapons, a 10 kt (42 TJ) bomb can easily be 5 * 8%= 40% as powerful as the 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) Starfish Prime at producing EMP.
'Anti-infantry high-explosive mine') is a scatterable high explosive anti-personnel land mine of Soviet and Russian production. [1] It is also known as a Green Parrot or Butterfly Mine. [ 1 ] The mines can be deployed from mortars, helicopters and airplanes in large numbers; they glide to the ground without exploding and will explode later upon ...
A similar envelope can be used to reduce the critical size of the bomb, but here the envelope has an additional role: its very inertia delays the expansion of the reacting material. For this reason such an envelope is often called a tamper. Use of a tamper clearly makes for a longer lasting, more energetic and more efficient explosion. [1]