2006-08-01 05:15:05 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Actually depends on how big it is,.
2006-08-01 05:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by jerdan95 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A single atomic bomb won't destroy the planet nor will it destroy all of mankind. It will destroy completely, depending on it's power, and area up to five miles in diameter from the blast. Fardioacitve particles will contiminate surrounding areas and will drift on the winds for many hundreds of miles, contaminating any areas they settle on and in. The farther the particles drift from the blast, the fewer will be left to settle to earth and to contaminate the environment. The winds will be contaminated though as will be all waters running through contaminated area. If I remember correctly, the blast at Hiroshima killed 100,000 people. I don't know what the figure was for Nagasaki. Those two bombs were babies compared to today's bombs. Another consideration is that today's bombs aren't strictly "atomic." Many of them are hydrogen which yield larger more intense explosions and wider areas of contamination in the form of fall out.
At one time, the U.S. was said to have more than thirty thousand nuclear missile warheads. Russia was said to have more since it had designed missiles with many warheads that could each destroy a different target, and all of the warheads were atomic. Think about what would happen if sixty thousand or more atomic explosions were set off within a day or two. The planet would be totally contaminated and all life as we know it would no longer exist. From the aerial dust and debris, the sun would be obscured, reducing the amount of light reaching the planet's atmosphere and the planet itself. The ambient temperature would plummet and an artificial winter would happen due to the temperature drop. This is called an "atomic winter." One explosion wouldn't cause this. But it could cause an atomic war, and I've already explained the consequences of that.
2006-08-01 05:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, an Atomic Bomb only has the power to destroy a city (40,000 Degrees at the Center, Few Miles Radius). However their is a theory called Nuclear Winter.
A Nuclear winter would be caused by a hundred or so Atomic bombs going off in a short period of time (As in a war). The Dust kicked up by that many bombs COULD, in theory block out the sun. Essientially the same thing that happened to the Dinosaurs when an Asteroid hit. It's just a theory though.
2006-08-01 05:20:42 · answer #3 · answered by collegedebt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe like if you some how made the atomic bomb to the moon, and the core of the moon, and then the gravitational pull of the earth would pull the broken moon towards earth gets destroyed, thats the only way i see it happening. The earth is too big for an atomic bomb ( 1 ) but the moon is about the same diameter as the USA so it could happen
2006-08-01 05:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by 96.7 KCAL ROCKS!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even several atomic bombs would not destroy the entire world. All life may be destroyed, possibly, but earth would still be here. The environment would most likely be completely ruined, but, after thousands (maybe millions) of years, parts may again become habitable. It would take some time for the radiation to dissolve from the atmosphere (due to half-lifes).
2006-08-01 05:21:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the "whole world" do you mean all the people living on it or the actual planet itself? An atomic bomb could not blow the planet up like the death star. However, a lot of bombs going off on the surface could cause a nuclear winter which could kill a lot of people - but probably not everyone.
2006-08-01 05:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by The Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AN atomic bomb. No, one bomb won't destroy the world. A whole bunch, though, would mess things up a bit...
2006-08-01 05:18:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what tonnage it delivers. I urge you to watch the DVD, THE FOG OF WAR, in which Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy, says "There is no learning curve with nuclear weapons. We'll be destroying nations." Hollywood and Blockbuster both carry it. THE DAY AFTER is another good, though fictionalized, DVD about the consequences of a nuclear "event." Watch the video below to see what the consequences of a 1-megaton bomb, if we decide to deploy it as a quick "solution" to the war in Iraq.
Good luck in your quest for knowledge. Don't stop researching this topic. Getting good information is literally a matter of life and death.
2006-08-01 05:25:06 · answer #8 · answered by Melinda C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, hundreds were exploded by the US, the USSR, England, France, China (am I leaving anybody out?) above ground before the nuclear test ban treaty became law in the 1960's--it put some bad radio active fallout in the air, but did not come close to destroying the world. A full scale war would be another matter, that actually could kill everything on the planet.
2006-08-01 05:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not by itself even the most powerful ones. It can set off continual war of nukes that would effectively leave the earth a lot less populated. It could also set us back a few hundred years technology wise. If you take a 100,000 people from the US of all different occupations and put them in their own country to fend for themselves, how much technology will they have. Little to none. If you wipe out enough industries and people, we have lost a lot that has been built.
2006-08-01 05:21:20 · answer #10 · answered by Fantasy Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. just ask they japanese, they had 2 dropped on them and wer're still here. maybe an atomic bomb at the center of the earth could destroy it, but who knows
2006-08-01 05:21:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋