The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometers (170 mi).
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In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. The cap of the mushroom cloud had a peak width of 95 km (59 mi) and its base was 40 km (25 mi) wide.Īll buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 km (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. The mushroom cloud was about 64 km (40 mi) high (over seven times the height of Mount Everest), which meant that the cloud was above the stratosphere and well inside the mesosphere when it peaked. The fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane and was visible at almost 1,000 km (620 mi) away from where it ascended. In theory, the bomb had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of 57 megaton TNT (210 PJ). Its test on Octoremains the most powerful human-made explosion in history. Tsar Bomba was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. If the explosion happens near the surface, it can create some pretty big waves-under some circumstances, they can be hundreds of feet high near ground zero. The report outlines how when a nuclear weapon goes off underwater, it produces a cavity of hot gasses, which then collapses. The report, published in 1996, exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. Some have questioned the 400+ page analysis in the Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions by the US Department of Defense by Bernard Le Mehaute and Shen Wang. It might also include cobalt 60 to spread radioactive fallout in the tsunami. It would explode in bay or off of a coast and trigger and megatsunami. Russia is developing a 100 megaton nuclear bomb that is put into a robotic submarine drone.
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