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The damage can be excessive especially on bombs detonated above ground level (a few hundred feet in the air). The real scare is the delivery system. A missle tends to destablize its gyroscopes on lift-off. This in turn causes miscalculations when the missle launch its multiple warheads (some missles carry 16 or more warheads). A "direct hit" could be off as much as 10 miles. Think about where some of major military targets are and you will see that 10 miles could put the direct hit over some very large population centers.

Nowadays, GPS and satelite tracking can improve targeting; but I am not sure if the funding ever went through to update the systems. America's nuclear arsonel is very large and mostly forgotten.

2007-06-23 16:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0 0

Depends upon the size of the bomb, and where the bomb is detonated (air blast, surface blast). In the 1945 bombs with 20 kilotons TNT, virtually everything within a 1-1/2 mile diameter of ground zero was wiped out. Only concrete structures withstood the blast to about twice that diameter, but windows and doors were blown out. Beyond a five mile diameter, strong brick structures survived, and at a 7-1/2 mile diameter, wooden homes survived.

2007-06-23 16:29:54 · answer #2 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 1 0

Nuclear explosions cause firestorms and intense heat damage. The temperature near the explosion point is high enough to vaporize a bulldozer. Two miles away, the bulldozer would just be melted.

Then there is a shock wave that demolishes buildings and public works. The flash is intense enough to blind people and animals 50 miles away. Finally, radiation and radioactive dust kills thousands of people.

The blast radius and more details of the damage done is variable, depending on the size of the bomb. For more and better information, try an internet search on "atomic bomb."

2007-06-23 16:31:06 · answer #3 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1 1

With an atomic bomb and area five miles in diameter is destroyed. Radiation kills any life in line of sight up to 7 miles. Blindness by line of sight is caused at 9 miles. Fallout causes various stages of radiation sickness in an area depending on prevailing winds up to several hundred miles.

With a hydrogen bomb approx, twice the damage and with a neutron bomb about 3 times the damage. Except, in the case of the neutron bomb, almost zero radiation damage.

2007-06-23 16:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0 1

blowing a bomb,any kind of bomb is too dangerous to mother earth and natures life.,or even the earth life itself. as you can see, the earth has life, soul and spirit of its own also. and factually its the truth.it is just like killing also GOD hIMSELF WHO implanted him self at the very core of .......?the earth was made 6 days.on the 7th day, he situated himself
in the centrom which is the center point of the six corner points of the earth unknown to mankind.lest it (8) be touched,disturb and destroyed to the extreme level of protective own measure of the earth security, we might as well all be blown-out of place in the inner space galaxi. now since we arent yet transfered to the outer space galaxi, i beg you all super powers,please refrain from developing your own
distructive hardware that will not kill and harm GOD ,but only your self.and 1 thing more, if possible instead of destroying earth, conserve 8 and the life ,the 4 fundamental FACTORS OF EXISTENCE,earth,wind ,water and fire.you havent found yet planets possessing same elements that is sustaining life
we are consuming here we all called LIFE.REMEMBER it(8) always. also mind the 5 extra unknown energies that is inter-connected to us from the OSGA.the outer space galaxi suppliments also not know to man and SCIENCE. Dont feel intrigue.instead, learn. from VITILC. the visualized inter terrestrial intelligence learning com.ok? bye.

2007-06-23 18:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by gb_almonte 2 · 0 0

Lots of heat damage, shrapnel, shock wave, and radiation poisoning. Nasty stuff. Nothing much left of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after we dropped nukes on them.

2007-06-23 16:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by SallyJM 5 · 1 0

presently countries like US,RUSSIA,CHINA have so many nuclear weapons (weapons including hydrogen bomb) that it can wipe out the whole world many times...........so its simple answer c u in heaven ;)..........

2007-06-23 17:10:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

it'll damage just about anything near it

2007-06-23 18:08:22 · answer #8 · answered by Flametrooper 2 · 0 0

Think of it this way: only the cockroaches would survive (and barely at that).

2007-06-23 17:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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