Drag the marker to wherever you d like to target. You might also try. Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
The united states detonated two nuclear weapons over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6 and 9 1945 respectively with the consent of the united kingdom as required by the quebec agreement the two bombings killed between 129 000 and 226 000 people most of whom were civilians and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. A nuclear weapon also called an atom bomb nuke atomic bomb nuclear warhead a bomb or nuclear bomb is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions either fission fission bomb or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions thermonuclear bomb both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. Since then the exponential increase of the destructive power of nuclear weapons is almost unimaginable.
It s been decades since the united states dropped the first atomic bomb. The death and destruction wrought by these weapons was unprecedented and might have in another world with another race of beings ended the nuclear threat right then and there. Three days later a second bomb detonated over nagasaki.
The first nuclear bomb meant to kill humans exploded over hiroshima japan on aug. We started with san francisco since according to missilemap wellerstein s companion tool to nukemap the city is within the estimated range of hwasong 14 north korea s newest and. This is the country s most powerful nuclear explosion to date about 10 times as strong as the hiroshima bomb blast of 1945 which caused some 150 000 casualties.
The iran centrifuge assembly center located in the country s natanz uranium enrichment complex has been operating since 2018 an explosion thursday shook the building which produces low enriched uranium and when satellite photos emerged over the weekend it appeared to have a large hole in the side according to the report iran s atomic energy organization released additional photos that. A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high speed nuclear reaction the driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi stage cascading combination of the two though to date all fusion based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device. The damaged building is.
The fire and explosion took place inside the nuclear complex at natanz where the iranian desert gives way to barbed wire antiaircraft guns and an industrial maze. Data obtained from the japanese surveys found that 8 psi 55 kpa was sufficient to destroy all wooden and brick. Most buildings except reinforced or blast resistant structures will suffer moderate damage when subjected to overpressures of only 35 5 kilopascals kpa 5 15 pounds force per square inch or 0 35 atm.
Much of the destruction caused by a nuclear explosion is due to blast effects.
