Trick question. The answer is vastly simplified--perhaps to the point of inaccuracy.
Having worked on a system that carried either payload, I can tell you that a hydrogen device will produce a larger blast radius with less long term radiation than the same physically sized uranium or plutonium device, but that efficient detonation does not occur until above the 50 kiloton range--not much of an issue when the average size of the devices of the five NPT states is taken into account. Much of the radiation released by a hydrogen reaction is in the form of heat, hence the term thermo-nuclear. All hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs. Solely uranium and plutonium bombs are fission devices. The difference is in the reaction (fission splits the atom, fusion compresses two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom--similar to the mechanism of stars). Additionally, all hydrogen bombs also have a fissile component that is used to compress and initiate the fusion reaction.
Depends entirely on its yield. Some hydrogen bombs had yields less than 1MT, some more. Others could provide a wide range of yields, all in one bomb. The user just needed to select the best yield for the particular application. So a 1MT bomb would have a blast radius of several 10s of miles, a 50MT bomb would have a blast radius of 100's of miles. The curvature of the Earth can help protect from heat and radiation, but the blast wave can reach beyond the horizon due to atmospheric focusing.
The blast radius of a 250 gallon propane tank would be 100 yards
35km
The fireball was roughly 1500 feet in diameter (750 feet in radius).Blast damage was found at 10000 yards (30000 feet) to some of the bunkers.The blast was heard hundreds of miles away.
square miles and radius have different units
Hydrogen + Helium=BLAST=Hydrogen+Helium=BLAST=Hydrogen+Helium=BLAST=_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and so on
See: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Depends entirely on its yield. Some hydrogen bombs had yields less than 1MT, some more. Others could provide a wide range of yields, all in one bomb. The user just needed to select the best yield for the particular application. So a 1MT bomb would have a blast radius of several 10s of miles, a 50MT bomb would have a blast radius of 100's of miles. The curvature of the Earth can help protect from heat and radiation, but the blast wave can reach beyond the horizon due to atmospheric focusing.
Little Boy was the nuclear bomb detonated over Hiroshima. It used uranium and had an explosive blast equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT. A 1 megaton hydrogen bomb, hypothetically detonated on the earth's surface, has about 80 times the blast power of that 1945 explosion. Considering the tonnage of a bomb to be contant, The blast radius varies dependent on whether it is a ground burst or an airburst. Further, the height of the airburst above ground affects the radius too. At a height of 1900 feet above ground, Little Boy produced a blast radius of 1 mile; an area of some 4.7 square miles.
The blast radius of a 250 gallon propane tank would be 100 yards
you can survive an atomic blast if you get inside of a certain metal. someone please edit and tell what metal it is
Because an atomic blast creates radioactive iodine, the gland most immediately effected after an atomic blast would be the thyroid gland.
standard blast radius is around 3-8 feet
about 7.7 percent
30 miles.
35km
The fireball was roughly 1500 feet in diameter (750 feet in radius).Blast damage was found at 10000 yards (30000 feet) to some of the bunkers.The blast was heard hundreds of miles away.