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It looks like I was going off bad information. I ran the numbers (as best I could) in the Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer[1] and I'm getting a radius of about 1m
by vonmoltke 10y ago
It looks like I was going off bad information. I ran the numbers (as best I could) in the Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer[1] and I'm getting a radius of about 1mi. The Wiki author claims to have run the same calculation with the same computer and come up with 2.2mi, though he later contradicts himself by saying the 5 psi contour at Hiroshima was at 1.1mi.
[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Bombcalc?yield=15&yunit=1&range=1&runit=1&rotate=0&imsize=800 http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Bombcalc?yield=15&yunit=1&ra...
- mikeash 10y ago1 mile fits with the NUKEMAP number of 1.67km, so it seems reasonable to go with that unless there's something better. 2.2 versus 1.1 smells like mixing up radius with diameter, but I could be completely wrong about that.