wtb nuclear weapons expert

is the smoke/dust/whatever due to the heat of the explosion?

Posted by Guest on Tue May 31 02:44:20 2011

It will be a silent spring.

Posted by The Bringer of Light (guest) on Tue May 31 19:59:52 2011

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Posted by Sarah Connor (guest) on Wed Jun 1 00:18:44 2011

There's a rapid transfer of heat that vaporizes everything in its path followed by an enormous shock wave. A bit like being in the presence of Courtney Love.

Posted by Guest on Wed Jun 1 00:35:20 2011

"It will be a silent spring."

Damnit man, you know that voice was in my head when I read it. One of my fave units...the AI just never got it.

Posted by Anon (guest) on Wed Jun 1 02:52:41 2011

The "smoke and dust" you see is a result of the initial thermal pulse from the detonation raising everything to its autoignition temperature (the lowest temperature where an object will spontaneously ignite).

The explosion looks in the neighborhood of 20-30 kilotons, and probably one of the Upshot-Knothole series conducted in Nevada.

Posted by Guest on Wed Jun 1 05:15:58 2011

is the smoke/dust/whatever due to the heat of the explosion?

Yes. It's a nuclear explosion. Hot as the mother fucking sun. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki vaporized people such that their "shadows" were permanently etched in the goddamn ground, walls, and sidewalks their were walking on/by. It's like an instant over 9000th degree sunburn.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=nuclear+shadow

Posted by Guest on Wed Jun 1 05:31:23 2011

"is the smoke/dust/whatever due to the heat of the explosion?"


Heat, and yes. That would be the result of the superheated incident wave. The wave being recorded is the reflected wave which catches up to the incident wave. The reflected is significantly faster than the incident and when it meets up with the incident they voltron into a combined wave front called the Mach stem. Pretty much a vertical force wall of you're doublefucked.

Though if you think this is bad look up Tsar Bomba. Shits nastybad. Be glad it was never used outside of testing.

Posted by Guest on Wed Jun 1 17:40:20 2011

the dark columns of smoke in the foreground are the metal fence posts. Or were, I should say.

Posted by corn (guest) on Wed Jun 22 18:14:20 2011

the dark columns of smoke in the foreground are the metal fence posts. Or were, I should say.

No, Im fairly sure those were telephone polls. this POV is from high up.

Posted by Guest on Sat Jul 23 23:16:46 2011

!!!

fisheye lense!

Posted by duude!! (guest) on Sun Jul 24 19:19:22 2011