Can a atomic bomb explode in space?

Answer 1

Yes, but there will be no sound, because of the vacuum. It would explode with light, heat and radiation but little else.

Answer 2

Yes. In fact, several atomic bombs were exploded in space in the 1950s and 1960s. By the way, chemical explosives, like gunpowder, can explode in space too. Small explosive charges are used to separate rocket stages, release nosecones, and so on.

Answer 3

yes the atomic bomb can explode in the space that also with greater power because there is no air so their is no pressure in the outerspace but on the earth its power will be half the power of that in the space.

Answer 4

The term explosion is really less fitting for dealing with space, because it won't be like in Star Wars with loud sounds and fire. It would use up all available oxygen within the bomb and then there would no longer be a fire, but the particle would still react with one another and the debris would still expanded, it would really look like a rapidly expanding, quickly dissipating puff of smoke.

Answer 5

Yes, of course. The explosion is the chain reaction of the uranium and this would occur in space, along with the energy release. What you would not get in space is the mushroom cloud since there is no atmoshpere to interact with.

Answer 6

Of course - no oxygen is needed; it's not combustion. Nuclear reactions occur at the atomic level and need no chemical reaction.

Of course, you negate the effects of blast and heat, so the net effect of the burst is different.

Answer 7

Yes. A nuclear reaction works the same in a vacuuum as in an atmosphere. The sun and every other star are controlled nuclear reactions.

Answer 8

Yus! Think of...that movie with Bruce Willis, Bill Bob Thorton and Ben Affleck. Armegedon.

Answer 9

Yes.

But so can gunpowder and dynamite. They carry in them their own source of oxygen in the form of an oxidising agent.

Answer 10

Yes.