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  2. Nuclear winter - Wikipedia

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    This pulverized rock can also produce "volcanic winter" effects, if sulfate-bearing rock is hit in the impact and lofted high into the air, [225] and "nuclear winter" effects, with the heat of the heavier rock ejecta igniting regional and possibly even global forest firestorms. [226] [227]

  3. Explosive cyclogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Explosive cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, [1] [2] [3] meteorological bomb, [4] explosive development, [1] bomb cyclone, [5] [6] or bombogenesis [7] [8] [9]) is the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. The change in pressure needed to classify something as explosive cyclogenesis is latitude dependent ...

  4. Effects of nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives. In most cases, the energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated within the lower atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories: [1]

  5. List of bombs - Wikipedia

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    Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser guided bomb: Molotov cocktail: Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle Nail bomb: 1970 Pipe bomb: Pressure cooker bomb: the pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive ...

  6. Explosion - Wikipedia

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    Explosion of unserviceable ammunition and other military items The explosion of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb. An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Explosions may also be ...

  7. List of explosions - Wikipedia

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    An explosion of oil tankers at the Islam-Qala customs post that damaged or destroyed more than 500 oil tankers. [138] [139] [140] 13 February 2021 Afghanistan: Balkh Province: 30 Unknown An explosion occurred at a Taliban bomb-making class. Thirty militants (including six foreigners) were killed, and an unknown number were injured. [141]

  8. Nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Nuclear electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia

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    In July 1962, the US carried out the Starfish Prime test, exploding a 1.44 Mt (6.0 PJ) bomb 400 kilometres (250 mi; 1,300,000 ft) above the mid-Pacific Ocean.This demonstrated that the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.