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Effects of 0.1kT and 1kT nuclear blast?
This may be a bit off-topic (and the reason I'm asking has nothing to do with T2K) but I figured that people here might be able to enlighten me.
Does anyone know roughly what the effects of a ground-burst nuclear explosion of either 0.1kT or 1kT would be? I'm less interested in radiation etc than blast and similar immediate effects. I've tried googling and looked at wikipedia, but I couldn't find much that helped, or that I could understand Thanks, Russ |
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Is it possible to generate a proper fission explosion of only 0.1kt? A 1kt explosion would be in the order of an artillery nuke or a small backpack nuke. Those are the sort of weapons I'd be Googling about for info.
This site has a cool effects calculator for nukes. http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16
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I hadn't thought of looking for artillery nukes in particular. Now that I have, I've found some interesting stuff. Apparently it is possible to go down to about 0.01kT, and it's been done: US M-388 Davy Crockett British Wee Gwen According to this declassified British document Quote:
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I’m going a little OT here, but, just for curiosity: what set of rules are you going to use? A new one or an existing one?
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I'll probably put my notes etc on line at some point (might be some way off), let me know if you'd like me to give you the URL when that happens. Might be an idea to move this discussion to PM, though - don't want to pollute the forum too much |
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Bona nit!
I think the following links may be useful. In this one, I've make some proofs and it allow you to enter a ground level burst of 0.1 kt. Sadly, only damage caused by overpressure is showed: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/...?inpyield=0.1# The following one gives you more information, but seems that the minimum power of the burst is 1kT and the figures showed "assume optimum burst height": http://www.stardestroyer.net/Resourc...xplosions.html
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Thread necromancy!
Interesting article: How to shelter from fallout after a nuclear attack on your city
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Go here: http://www.nuclearsecrecy.org/NUKEMAP
You can choose the yield, air or ground burst-and if the latter, even plot fallout, and use Google Earth or Maps to select your target and adjust ground zero (and have multiple GZs in the same target!).
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