how do nuclear bombs kill?

Question

Can anyone explain to me in detail how does a nuclear bomb kill? I heard they turn human into ash and that the mushroom cloud is human ash or something like that...

Answer 1

well...

when you really look at it, all a nuclear weapon is...is a really big, intense explosive device, with the extra "added oomph" of radiation. in short, nuclear bombs kill almost the same way any bomb kills.


heat. from the chain reaction, you get massive amounts of heat. heat that rivals the surface of the sun for several seconds on the face of the earth. that much thermal radiation is what reduces the structures to ash at the center, and actually starts fires several mile from the center of the explosion. just good old heat.

blast effects. the expanding fireball from the explosion produces an intense pressure wave that propagates from the center, expressed as over-pressure, or a very severe wind. over pressure can simply flatten objetcs, as if you can imagine your body that is used to 14.7 lbs per square inch of pressure exerted on your skin suddenly being increased to 1000's of pounds per square inch in a heart beat. a good example is 10 people jumping on an air mattress at once: the mattress just pops, and so does the body. it simply gets crushed. the winds blow so hard, they pick up rock, cars, people, ect and literally shotgun them out from the center. these objects strike other objects, cause glass to shatter and fly out, all sorts of mayhem. think of a rolling airborne wave of destruction, and you pretty well get the picture. everything just sorta gets ground up as the ejecta moves outward.

radiation. radiation kills from two effects related to time. these are prompt effects, and delayed effects.

prompt radiation is the energy released during the first two minutes of the detonation. Primarily gamma rays, x-ray, and neutrons, this energy also shotguns from the center of the detonation, and immediately irradiates the cells of the body, causing the damage listed in the above answers. distance and shielding reduces the effects, depending on the distance or the ability of the shielding to stop the energy.

delayed effects have actually been described as the fallout, or items that have been irradiated by the explosion, or residual materials that did not fission from the bomb itself. while not as immediately destructive as the gamma, x-ray and neutron energies, these items, which consist of low grade gamma emitters, beta, and alpha particles, do over a period of time cause the same destructive effects listed in the answers above and you can die from them as well. time, distance, and shielding all play apart in the amount of the dose that would determine your chances to live or die.

Answer 2

the bomb produces so – called “secondary radiation” as well. The ultra – energetic nuclear particles released by the explosion radiate the surrounding material, and the intense heat causes this debris to rise upward in a giant cloud. Much of this cools when it reaches the stratosphere, falling back to earth as intensely radioactive “primary fallout”. Many of those who managed to survive the heat wave and blast will succumb to the effects of “radiation sickness”. Destruction of the DNA in the body’s rapidly – growing cells leads to hair loss, diarrhea, soft tissue and internal bleeding, pulmonary edema, and severe damage to the immune system. If the exposure is great enough, it can fatally impair the vital functions of the liver, lungs, heart, and nervous tissue, leading to a lingering, painful death described by one doctor as “cancer of the everything”.

Answer 3

There are three principal effects of nuclear explosions that can injure or kill.
- Blast. The explosion generates overpressures that can knock down structures and throw debris about. Getting struck by such can cause injury. The overpressure itself can cause internal injuries if one is close enough to the explosion.
- Heat. An enormous amount of heat is releasted, which can set fire to inflammable things at considerable distance. Some people underneath the Hiroshima explosion were completely incinerated.
- Radiation. There is prompt radiation, generated by the explosion, and delayed radiation, generated by the decay of fission products from the explosion (popularly called fallout). Either can be dangerous, although fallout from an air burst tends to be scattered and may not be dangerous except at close distances.

Answer 4

It would depend on many factors Size of the bombs yield whether air or ground detonation where it went off wind direction at the time and the following days etc etc When the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not everyone in Japan died. Those at ground zero did and then there was a descending scale of deaths the further away from GZ the persons were.

Answer 5

A nuclear bomb is made from the splitting of an atom. When an atom is split, this causes the most huge explosion. Thus, all the damage at impact. Then the bomb emits large amounts of radiation, so much that the heat can melt the skin and body away.

The radiation is so strong that it lingers a long time and many more die later of radiation poisoning.

Answer 6

Real quick from what I've heard. Unfortunately, there are no interviews with people who have been killed by a nuclear bomb to back up my answer.

Answer 7

Worst Microwave oven that ever existed, knocking at your front door. Disintegration of your particulate being in less time than you can yell "Amanasize me".
Not even...like "puff"..you're gone.

The sizzles crisp on the side of the pan are crunchy, and snappy crispy....make you run for water.

All vegetables get burnt. No more salad.

Everybody Die.

Answer 8

1. shock wave
2. blast damage
3. heat wave
4. collapsing structures
5. gamma radiation exposure

Answer 9

plus, like that chicken leg you threw in the microwave you will cook from the INSIDE out.

crispy like.

Answer 10

you're cooked you're fried your're played you're wasted
you're history!!!!!!!!!!step into my micro wave and sample the effect of radiation ........get the meaning? you're nuked!