if a nuclear bomb is detonated at the north pole what would the results be if any?

Question

ok a large nuke

Answer 1

It would melt the rest of the polar ice caps and drown the whole world.

Answer 2

A large mega-ton class nuclear device would have very little effect if detonated at the north pole. The water that was created from the heat of the blast would refreeze very quickly.

No nuclear "winter" effect from a nuclear blast up at the north pole. No dust, ash or debris kicked up into the atmosphere. There would be a relatively fast return to winter temperatures after the blast.

Not much happens right at the north pole regarding life (humans or animals). If a nuke ever had to go off on earth, that is probably one location that would have the least long term effect...except for underground explosions.

Answer 3

Nuclear bombs are not any further made from Meccano instruments, Nuclear Bombs require knowledge which i'd imagine is a lot previous the likes of Al Qeada. Now they'd have the capacity to make a grimy bomb a bomb finished of Nuclear waste notwithstanding that's a ways faraway from a Nuclear Bomb. no longer certain even as yet i imagine it grow to be in the Nineteen Fifties the U. S. by probability dropped a Thermonuclear Bomb (H-Bomb) on Spain, even with the actual incontrovertible truth that it exploded into thousands and thousands of tiny products it did not detonate and burst, the clean up fee the U. S. a small fortune notwithstanding it killed no human being per chance some Cows and Sheep per chance yet so a ways as i recognize it led to little or no damage. Its no longer difficulty-free to construct a Nuclear gadget and its more suitable sturdy nevertheless to get one to effectively detonate and regardless of in case you're taking care of to do all that it may well be close to-on no longer achieveable to effectively smuggle it over Border's. Now those terrorists would trust what they have been informed that Al Qeada has a Nuclear Bomb, notwithstanding that's a lengthy lengthy lengthy way from Al Qeada truly having one. In WW2 the jap people were informed that they were triumphing the conflict excellent as a lot because the day they surrendered and many believed it. enthusiasts will trust some thing if tell em oftentimes sufficient what they favor to hearken to.

Answer 4

First of all, North Pole will be erase from the world map if this happens.

Secondly, the radiation heat from the bomb could melt the ice-bergs at an extremely fast speed, causing a huge and most massive tsunami waves across the countries. MAJOR ARCTIC MELTDOWN! First ones to be hit would be the ones near to the North Pole. There will be major death tolls across the world. (If you see the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, most probably that would be the possible situation).

Thirdly, animals in the North Pole (like penguins, seals and polar bears), will be extinct.

But, another question remains......who wants to nuke North Pole anyway? Heehe.. ;-)

Answer 5

First of all, A nuclear bomb explodes at an energy that's 7 times hotter than the sun's rays. The nuclear core can emit energy 49 times hotter than the sun's external energy (if the sun explodes, here goes our solar system, because of the energy emitted by it's nuclear core).

Not only will the north poles disappear, but everything will be evaporated around the blast radius of the nuclear explosion.

The land outside the nuclear blast radius will shift the earth's plateau and cause the weak plates to cause a hefty earthquake and since nuclear explosion are radioactive...expect human species to me mutated eventually...

hope that helps.

Answer 6

Polar bears would become extinct, the ice would all melt and raise the sea level devestating low laying cities, the skies would darken and people of the north 2/3 of the world would suffer from radiation or radiation related illnesses.

The currents of the oceans might slow or stop because the cool water pushes the warm currents down and back towards warmer waters keeping the cycle of the currents going. Species of the sea may become disoriented and end up far from familiar waters.

Several thousands more things could go wrong...

Answer 7

High probability of loss of ozone layer, melted and contaminated ice packs, coastal flooding, tsunamis, elimination of many animal species. Also, radiation poisoning, carried by wind currents to other nations in the region, most likely in the northern hemispheres.

The Soviet Union detonated a 100-megaton nuclear bomb (testing above ground) in 1962--that's 100 million tons of TNT, but it was on Soviet soil in Siberia. Obviously the area where it was tested is uninhabitable for decades to come. The consequences of that blast led to the 1963 Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty.

Answer 8

how big? if really big, immediate effects would be tidal waves. also large chunks of ice would dislodge from the ice cap and float south to where it would melt. that would result in ocean levels rising and a huge shift in oceanic temperature. that would kill most sea life. THEN oceanic temperature change would change global weather patterns and potentially jumpstart another ice age if the earth didn't balance itself out soon enough.

Answer 9

Aside from melting the polar ice caps and making the seas rise an cover tons of land? Well....um..nuclear fallout, darker skies.

Answer 10

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