What would happen if you detonated a nuke in the center of the Earth?
If you set off nukes inside the Earth’s core the pressure waves would primarily be P waves, that would spread out evenly towards the surface. Using David Hammen’s 7 x 1018 joules of energy and Earth’s surface area of 5.1 x 1014 square meters.
What would have happened if the Tsar Bomba was 100 megatons?
The most powerful bomb ever detonated was the Soviet’s Tsar Bomba which was detonated in 1961 with a yield of 50 Megatons. The same bomb design with a Uranium 238 tamper instead of the Lead tamper they used would have yielded 100 Megatons but would have produced much more radioactive fallout.
What would happen if an 800 kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Midtown Manhattan?
The blast would tear apart high-rise buildings and expose their contents to the solar temperatures; it would spread fires by exposing ignitable surfaces, releasing flammable materials, and dispersing burning materials.
What if a nuke hits NYC?
A nuclear bomb dropped on New York City could kill 264,000 people — the most of any city on this list. The city’s total injury count would also be harrowing: About 512,000 people would be hurt.
What is the biggest nuclear bomb?
Tsar Bomba
Testing The ‘Tsar Bomba’: The World’s Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb. The most powerful nuclear bomb in history went off on October 30, 1961, over the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya.
What would happen if every nuclear warhead in the world detonates simultaneously?
But assuming every warhead had a megatonne rating, the energy released by their simultaneous detonation wouldn’t destroy the Earth. It would, however, make a crater around 10km across and 2km deep.
What is the blast radius of a nuclear bomb?
Tsar Bomba had a total destruction blast radius of about 15 miles. A 100 megaton bomb would have a total destruction blast radius of about 18 miles. A thousand megaton bomb would have a blast radius of about . . . 18 miles.
What is the largest nuclear bomb in the world?
The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated was the 57—that’s “fifty-seven”—megaton “Tsar Bomba”, a massive Russian hydrogen bomb (fission-fusion-fission device) that was set off in 1961.
What would happen if we injected space debris into the atmosphere?
The huge volume of debris injected into the atmosphere would have far more widespread effects. This ‘aerosol’ of particles would reduce the amount of heat reaching the surface from the Sun, producing a so-called nuclear winter with huge environmental impact.