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To: C19fan
If you want to know, in layman terms, what nuclear weapon effects will do, just go HERE for NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein


43 posted on 10/25/2016 7:52:41 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: DCBryan1

Using the application, for a 40 Mt weapon (4,000 kt) airburst the over pressure is (pounds per square inch):

8 psi at a 4 mile radius, virtually no freestanding structure survives collapse. A moonscape of unrecognisable rubble that is 8 miles across.


52 posted on 10/25/2016 10:43:02 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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