To: Chena
If you explode a nuclear weapon deep underground it can contain the fallout.(shot:Rainier and most underground explosions) Though, sometimes the fallout "leaks" into the air even though you exploded it underground(shot:Gnome).This is an illustration of an "ideal nuclear explosion"
The largest underground nuclear explosion(for the USA) was shot Cannikin at 5 megatons in 1971
250 posted on
08/18/2006 9:47:33 PM PDT by
garbageseeker
(Wars may be fought by weapons, but they are won by men.- General George Patton)
To: garbageseeker
To: garbageseeker
It's possible to actually go out to the Gnome site. Kind of neat to walk where a nuclear bomb was detonated.
260 posted on
08/18/2006 9:49:53 PM PDT by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: garbageseeker
Thanks, garbageseeker. Finally, I got to a point on the thread that has useful information. LOL
289 posted on
08/18/2006 9:59:00 PM PDT by
Chena
("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
To: garbageseeker
Was the cavity dug vertically like that for the test, or was it filled in and the bomb mostly blasted upward?
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