Posted on 09/04/2017 6:00:02 PM PDT by hapnHal
Can North Korean Hydrogen Bomb Evaporate New York in Case of Surface Blast?
How much damage can it cause
Professor of Korean studies at Kookmin University, Seoul, told Al Jazeera that it can completely destroy New York. “Such a device could evaporate the entire city of New York completely – no one would stay alive. With an atomic bomb, you can kill half of Manhattan, at most,” he said. Website Nuclear Secrecy, assesses the damage on New York in case of a blast yielding 50 kilotonnes. Its findings are disturbing.
Effects radii for 50 kiloton surface burst (smallest to largest): Fireball radius: 380 m (0.45 km²) Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation.
If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased. Air blast radius (20 psi): 0.8 km (2.02 km²) At 20 psi overpressure, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%.
Radiation radius (500 rem): 1.64 km (8.41 km²) 500 rem radiation dose; without medical treatment, there can be expected between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects alone. Dying takes between several hours and several weeks.
Air blast radius (5 psi): 1.69 km (8.94 km²) At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 2.87 km (25.9 km²) Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 9.5 cal/cm2.
Nuclear effects calculator - can play with different yields,
locations, burst characteristics
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
70 KT detonated in lower Manhattan - destroys all of lower Manhattan, extending into Jersey City and Brooklyn
Okay, a rhetorical question:
How much damage can flying two planes into a couple of large buildings in New York City and the capitol building and the third, crashed in a field? Only 3000 people died. What happens if tens of thousands of people die or at injured?
Seems like it devastated our country for a long while... after the initial attack. Plus, it resulted in war and then another war.
The only way to get it to New York is by San Pan..
Maybe when he was there, but South Korea is now one of the most technologically advanced and prosperous countries on Earth. I left for the last time 34 years ago and they were already on track to success.
I like that.. they’re on the receiving end..
Set it off high in the atmosphere and there go all Electrical devices in good part of US and Canada including all cars, ships, tractors etc. I think thebdeath toll is supposed to be 75% or so in affected area due to starvation, lack of medical care and breakdown in society. Not much of anything will work in area hit by EMP.
“accurate gaydar”
ROFL!
That is the post of the day if I may say so!
What about LA and San Fran?
Hit Port of LA and our economy shuts down in 2 weeks.
Hit the Bay Area and Silicone Valley is toast.
Hopefully we can keep that no combat streak going.
North Korea might simply send an innocent looking ship or plane to the United States and use it to unleash a bomb.
Ships and planes originating from North Korea need to be banned from any point in the Pacific that they would be close enough to detonate a bomb that would affect the U.S.
He was there in the early 60s.
So yes, S.Korea is such a huge success in contrast to those poor souls in N.Korea who don’t have anything we’d consider as a decent life. We wouldn’t treat our dogs like that.
Yup, ‘boosted’ fission device at best.
The Atlantic (and the Pacific) have been obstacles for our enemies.
As usual I remember the left giving Reagan grief over his Star Wars
From the New York perspective, there is no such place as North Korea, because it is not between the New York Atlantic coast and the Hudson River. So everything will be just fine in New York.
It depends on how close you are when it lads.
The early 60’s was just 10 years or less after the total destruction of the Korean War. I was there in 1978-79 and 1981-82. Much different. I watch travel and cooking shows that go to present-day Korea and it is amazing how modern and prosperous it is now. The Hyundai Genesis models are on par with Mercedes and BMW. You don’t do that in a backwards nation.
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