nuclear bomb..?

Question

how much states will it destroy? :(

Answer 1

Hmmmm...depends on the kind of warhead you use.

Using a clean one like the neutron bombs would only take out maybe a city and not do too much additional damge....kinda boring.
But if you like would use some Hydrogen bomb... well youd get a mighty big bang and have a considerable amount of dirty fallout covering way more than just one state...so I suggest you drop one of those on your NME
:D

Answer 2

None. Some modern nuclear weapons have blast radii in excess of 40 square miles and the radioactive fallout will contaminate miles beyond that with residual effects being felt farther than that, especially in areas downwind or downstream of the area.

Cold War weapons were designed before the advent of smart munitions so bombs were created with the capability to level the entirety of say, Chicago, even if the bomb was 5 miles askew of the city center. Dangerous fallout from these weapons would spread over a hundred miles. Residual fallout would actually spread all over the globe although not in levels high to be dangerous.

The Tsar bomb the largest ever detonated: "The heat could have caused third degree burns at a distance of 100 km. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high and 30–40 km wide. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the earth."-wikipedia.org The Soviets had a bomb of twice this power planned, but after seeing these effects decided it was not worth the risk to test.

But most modern nuclear weapon delivery systems carry multiple warheads so if concentrated, leveling 100 square miles with one missile or only part of a submarine payload should prove to be no problem. Weapons like these though are only possessed by nuclear superpowers, namely the USA.

Answer 3

It depends on how strong the winds are blowing and in what direction the winds are blowing. If the winds are blowing over a heavily populated region, everyone in that region will die. And most likely everyone within 500 miles of that region will die. That's with only one nuclear bomb. Yet, technology in nuclear bombs has advanced leaps and bounds over the last 20 years. So those with the old technology are falling behind those with the more modern and deadly technology. That's why there was such as nuclear build up in the 1980s between USSR and USA, they were each trying to outdo each other. Then the USA claimed to be working on the Star War initiatives using satillites to create nuclear explosions. That's cutting edge technology. Not sure, however, what is considered cutting edge technology today.

Answer 4

One of the things that they don't tell you is there is no limit on how powerful it can be we simply agreed with other nations and the UN not to make them any more powerful than they currently are but the bombs used today are about thirty times more powerful than the ones we used on Japan during WWII. It depends on how much nuclear material you can enrich and if you have the means to get it off the ground. Most countries nuclear weapons can't reach the states because there still using outdated missile technology.

Answer 5

The following site will give you an idea of the effect of a nuclear detonation on severl US cities. The kiloton yield and whether its an airburst or ground-level burst will determine the destruction.

In the mid 60's, the Soviets developed the "mother of all nukes" in the 100 megaton range. They detonated it at half its capacity. It has since been decommisioned and no other "strategic" nukes of that size has been developed. The current nukes are in the 500 kiloton range. The smallest at at around .3 kilotons (the so-called 'tactical' nukes).

The 17,000 or so Russian ICBM are enough to destroy a state several times over. One single one will not do it, unless of course your state is Connecticut or Massachusetts or something... Then again, with 17,000 nukes going off, you're talking global suicide at that point.

Answer 6

It all depends and how large a bomb and how many are used. The average payload carried on a U.S. Boomer class nuclear submarine could destroy Central America many times over.
The largest single nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal could easily take out half of Texas, and make the rest uninhabitable.

Answer 7

A nuclear bomb would not entirely destroy a large city

Answer 8

a nuclear bomb capable of wiping out an entire state has not been devised yet
but yes, it can take down multiple cities at a time
it is not the initial explosion that is dangerous, it is the radiation leaks that follow that is dangerous
the effects linger for a long time

Answer 9

dumb question and same is the answer
You mean a medium size bomb or a whole nuclear war.
A medium size can destroy a city like NY and open nuclear war will destroy this world.

Answer 10

These things come in every imaginable size. It's doubtful that one is big enough to take out an entire state, say the size of Texas, California, or Alaska!