If a 100 mega ton bomb is set off in the middle east, will we die in the U.S?

Answer 1

The Russians Tested one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

Answer 2

100,000,000 tons of TNT is a lot. The fireball would be about 50 miles across and the blast zone would be about 200 miles across. Radiation would extend to any visible distance. The Soviets exploded a big bomb and the blast wave went around the Earth about 3 times, but the damage was limited to the area of the blast. There is a video of it on the net. In the 60's 70's and 80's the Soviets and the USA could have killed everyone on Earth 7 times with all the bombs they had. Hopefully, we can get through this era without destroying ourselves.

;-D Let's not do that.

Answer 3

From the blast itself? No. If I recall correctly, the largest bomb ever exploded was 50 megatons (the USSR's Tsar Bomba). It didn't come close to incinerating the US--or even more than an extremely negligible portion of the former USSR.

Depending on the bomb's design, though, nuclear fallout may become an issue. I highly doubt that the fallout would be substantial enough to affect the US, but it would probably have lasting impact around the explosion area.

We would die, though, by other countries attacking us. And we wouldn't even need a nuke that large for that--any nuke would probably anger the rest of the world enough to start freaking out an attacking us.

Answer 4

A 100 mega ton that is one huge bomb I dont think that the explosion from the bomb would kill everyone but a bomb of that magnatude could probably set off a chain of events that may kill others like earthquakes radiation wildfires ect.I think that could be comparable to earth getting hit with a small meteor

Answer 5

I dont think so. Neither the blast nor the radiation will cause widespread annihilation of the US. However, the entire Earth will still be affected. The radiation will cause electrical systems and electronics to go haywire. It will almost be like a solar storm or a huge E-bomb.

However, no one has actually tested a 100 megaton bomb before. The highest was about 50 megatons by the russians.They could've done it, but they didn't want to blow their entire country up....

Answer 6

Possibly! the world being a giant ball of molten rock covered in a thin skin of rock and water would probably ring like a bell causing disturbing affects all over the world, earthquakes and tremors and electrical activity. You would probably get the radioactive dust that has gone into orbit falling back to the planet over USA probably raise the local radiation level. More birth defects and cancer and related. That's why world conflict would not be solved by super bombs. Good luck!

Answer 7

Nope, not from 100 megaton.

Not big enough.

But If you buried a few of them just under the surface, you could get a nuclear winter faster than if airburst. However, airburst is far better for killing nearby targets.

Why anyone would want to do either of those is beyond me, though.

Answer 8

Absolutes (sentences that contain "never", "continually", "no one", "all and sundry", etc.) are never authentic. of direction, some all and sundry is saddened whilst innocents are killed violently. No human ought to stay in consistent concern of surprising, violent death. right here interior the U. S., we moan and groan and wring our arms over a strategies-away threats yet, you're top, maximum folk have no thought how surely undesirable is it to actual ought to stay with random bombings and/or missile strikes. Make no mistake, all areas of the U. S. are no longer equivalent. it is in basic terms whilst super cities go through a violent act that the international's interest turns our way. something human beings in smaller cities and cities are not as helpful with the aid of fact the citizens of Washington D.C., new york, etc.

Answer 9

No. However, nobody has a weapon that large because it would destroy more things than its potential user would find it useful to destroy. The largest nuclear bombs ever made for combat use have a yield of about 20 megatons -- much bigger than that, and they become too heavy to deliver.

Answer 10

The bomb wouldn't be the least of our worries. North Korea would join in the fun.

Answer 11

Depends on what kind of radiation there was from it. I say go for a few smaller 'clean' bombs, that just leave a half-life of a few weeks, not centuries.