A nuclear blast could kill or poison marine life possibly disturbing the local ecosystem. Still a hydrogen bomb harms the environment. But what is a hydrogen bomb s blast radius.
Castle bravo s yield was 15 megatons of tnt 2. Castle bravo was the first in a series of high yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the united states at bikini atoll marshall islands as part of operation castle detonated on march 1 1954 the device was the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the united states and its first lithium deuteride fueled thermonuclear weapon. In other words an atomic bomb can be used as a trigger for a hydrogen bomb.
In a nutshell an atomic bomb is a fission device while a hydrogen bomb uses fission to power a fusion reaction. A hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb are both types of nuclear weapons but the two devices are very different from each other. If a nuclear bomb went off on san francisco almost the entire tip of the peninsula would disappear under the fireball shockwave radiation and catastrophic heat spreading from the blast.
The fatality rate is 100. This time a nuclear fireball would reach chalk farm in the north and camberwell in the south. This simulator shows what would a soviet hydrogen bomb that remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created the death toll would rise to over two million with a heat radius of.
With the atomic bomb we dropped in nagasaki it killed everybody within a mile radius morse told time on friday adding that a hydrogen bomb s reach would be closer to 5 or 10 miles. Tested on 30 october 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi stage thermonuclear weapon designs it. Tsar bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created.
The soviet rds 220 hydrogen bomb code name ivan or vanya known to the western nations as tsar bomba russian. Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
