On the island Novaya Zemlya in the USSR above the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was called Tsar Bomba (King of bombs) and had a yield of 52 MTons to 58 MTons, depending on how it was measured. The design (AN602) had a potential yield of 100 MTons, if they had wanted to go all the way.
The size of the crater created from a nuclear explosion can vary depending on the size of the bomb and the type of terrain it impacts. In general, a nuclear explosion can create a crater several hundred meters wide and tens of meters deep, with larger bombs resulting in larger craters.
The force that pulls the material of a nuclear explosion back into a star is gravity. Gravity is the attractive force between objects with mass, and in the case of a star, it is the force that keeps the star's material gravitationally bound together despite the energy released in a nuclear explosion.
For the same reason they form following any explosion: heated air from explosion is lighter than surrounding air, making it buoyant and it therefor rises. The cloud is visible because of entrained debris, vaporized metal, smoke from fires, etc. produced by the explosion (nuclear or not). Nuclear mushroom clouds are simply more spectacular because more energy was released, making them hotter.
Yes, technically, every star is a nuclear explosion, including our sun. Apart from that, you would be able to see a nuclear explosion if one were to occur out side the planet if it was close enough. Out in the country, in the night sky, you can see satelittes that are the size of homes only reflecting the light of the sun flying around. A nuclear explosion could make a flash that is anywhere from the size of a few cities blocks to a mile across or more emitting vast amounts of light from them.
No cockroaches are one of the few organisms able to survive nuclear explosions. Scorpions cannot.
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The Halifax Explosion occured in Halifax on the morning of December 6, 1917. The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons.
The Halifax Explosion occured in Halifax on the morning of December 6, 1917. The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons.
While there have been a number of very large blasts used in mining, and accidents in making and transporting explosives, the largest non-nuclear explosion (not counting volcanoes) Was probably the spectacular accidental explosion of the N-1 rocket in the former Soviet Union in July 1969. The explosion was the equivalent of between 6-7 thousand tons of TNT.
When and what explosion? One of the nuclear test shots. If so which?Remember Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion, it was a steam explosion and graphite fire.
The largest nuclear plant meltdown happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. The explosion and subsequent fire released large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, resulting in one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
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No, a nuclear explosion on a nuclear power plant would not cause the explosion radius to increase. The explosion radius would be determined by the yield of the nuclear weapon itself, not by the presence of the power plant.
There were no reports of a nuclear explosion in Germany between 1990-1992. Germany does not have a history of nuclear weapons testing and there have been no instances of nuclear explosions in the country during that time period.
There is no record of a nuclear explosion occurring on November 6, 2010. If there had been a nuclear explosion, it would likely have been a significant event that would be widely documented.
A nuclear explosion is caused by the rapid release of energy from a nuclear chain reaction. This can occur in a nuclear weapon when a critical mass of fissile material is rapidly brought together, leading to a highly destructive explosion. In a nuclear reactor, such an explosion is prevented through control mechanisms that regulate the nuclear reaction.