How big is this?

Question

I'm curious how big would the width of a 100MT Nuclear explosion be?

Answer 1

There isn't much information on a !00 MegaTon Blast.

I can tell you that a 1 Megaton blast will kill 50% of the people in a 3 KM radius. That is 6 KM diameter. The other 50% of the people will receive radiation that will kill the in a short time(days to a few weeks).

Since terrain features affect the blast radius, I would look at this in an area (like the desert) of 1000 Sq. Km. where it is flat with no mountains, forests etc that would affect it.

You would be looking at a blast radius of 200+KM with 50% killed immediately and the other 50% receiving lethal doses of radiation that will kill them in a short time.

Answer 2

The first thing you must understand is what MT stands for. 1kiloton is equivalent to 1000 tons of TNT going off at the same time. The bomb on Hiroshima was 16 KT or KILOTONS and the bomb on Nagasaki was 19KT.

Now, an MT or MEGATON is equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT going off at the same time. So, a 100 MT warhead would have the force of 100 million tons of TNT going off at the same time. The biggest nuclear test ever created was one done in Russia in the early sixties. It was called the Tsar bomba and was about 57 MT. The shock wave from that blast went around the world 3 times. It created blast damage up to 600 miles away. It was capable of producing 3rd degree burns 65 miles away. The mushroom itself was 20-30 miles wide and 40 miles high. To get a concept of its power, this one nuclear detonation was more powerful than all the energy created by all the bombs ever dropped in human history including all the tested nuclear weapons and the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It created 1% of the suns energy in the amount of time that the reaction took....That is....incomprehensibly powerful.

A 100 MT war head would be twice as powerful as the one I just described.

Answer 3

a five did like five sqaure miles in japan twice so that would be a guess of a hundred square miles but the secondary kill zone and the wind drift arent figured in the rains and or winds or bodies of water make the radiation spread the cancers and the residual rads would continue to kill for about 100 years like chernobyl

Answer 4

Never will happen! America won't let it! Say Thank You and watch out you may end up in the prison in Cuba!

Answer 5

It would probably wipe out the state of Kansas.

Answer 6

Big enough that you wouldn't want to be within several hundred miles of epicenter, and you wouldn't want to be downwind either.

Answer 7

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=156124


here's a forum where some different people throw out some theories on how big it would be.

Answer 8

and why would u want to know?/? it is enought to kill the entire pop. of usa

Answer 9

calculations