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How much more efficient is a modern day nuclear bomb to a World War 2 nuclear bomb?
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Well,to me a WW2 nuclear bomb means Hiroshima and Nagasaki.They were respectively 15 kilotons and 20 kilotons nuclear devices.
15 KT (kilotons) means that the damage from the blast is roughly equal to 15 kilotons
( or 15 000 tons) of TNT explosives.
a "Modern" Nuke can easily reach 20 megatons( (they were achieved in the 1960s) -
this means 15 million tons of TNT.
The most powerful nuclear explosion was a 50 Megaton nuclear device used by the Soviet Union.(30.X.1961) This device was successfully constructed as a 100 Megaton bomb,but was then reduced to ~50 and some materials changed,because there would be too much pollution and there was a risk that the plane dropping it couldn't reach safety distance fast enough.
According to physics the most powerful bomb was 4000 times more powerful than the one in Hiroshima.
The bomb in Hiroshima destroyed almost every building in 2 kilometers radius from the explosion.
The Emperor Bomb (the 50 megaton one) could destroy anything in more than 10 kilometers radius. Makes you think what a 100 Megaton can do,because they had it.
But radius isn't the only thing that matters.It is known for Hiroshima that one building just 420 meters from the explosion was "as if untouched" from the bomb.The building was from thick Concrete.And this building was build with materials from 1945.Yes,in 2008 we have several times more reinforced structures,but i don't know a material that won't be destroyed by a "Modern" nuke.
Modern nukes produce temperature at amount of millions of degrees. The diamond is ruined at 800 degrees.the Titanium melts at 1625 degrees.The surface of the sun(as long as i have heard and read) is about 4000 degrees,and we can't reach it with space shuttles.And you want something to survive at millions of degrees?
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