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How hot is an atomic bomb?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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Before detonation a uranium-235 core is about ambient temperature and a plutonium-239 core is warmer than human body temperature. At detonation either type of core is at several million degrees, completely vapor, and radiating black body radiation peaking in the X-Rays. A moment later it has heated the air around it hot enough so that it is opaque to the entire electromagnetic spectrum. As this air cools it again becomes transparent to the black body radiation peaking in the X-Rays.

In the case of a hydrogen bomb, the temperature rises to several tens of millions of degrees.

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The hydrogen bomb is so hot that everything that is near its center would eventually evaporate, it is between 50'000,000 to 150'000,000 fahrenheit, the evaporation point to almost everything is at around 1'000,000 fahrenheit so you do the math so if you are miles away you will still get burns at a 3rd degree or can also get u cancer due to its radiation exposure of its waves, so I hope no one would come across one cause otherwise would be catastrophic.

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8y ago

The Hiroshima fireball was 370 meters (1,200 ft) in diameter, with a surface temperature of 6,000 °C (10,830 °F)

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12y ago

10 million degrees F.

Enough to bleach the shadows into the ground.

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12y ago

hot

extremely hot, as on the surface of the sun

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7y ago

It was approximately 45000 degrees Celsius. since the sun is 15000 and it was 3 times hotter than the sun...(15X3)X1000=45000

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11y ago

A few million Kelvin.

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on the order of 10 million K.

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14y ago

4000 degrees celsius

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