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What kind of structure can you avoid the initial flash and heat wave (if not the concussive / overpressure blast wave)? Concrete? Brick? Can you just get behin
by graderjs 4y ago
What kind of structure can you avoid the initial flash and heat wave (if not the concussive / overpressure blast wave)?
Concrete? Brick? Can you just get behind a 6 inch concrete wall and you are OK from the flash and heat wave? What if you dive under the water (in a pool or whatnot)?
- acidburnNSA 4y agoHeavily-reinforced concrete and/or underground. The more rebar, the better. Jumping in a pool won't help much if you're in the big part of a pressure wave, I'd guess, since the water would probably all be removed. Anywhere near a 20 psi overpressure thermonuclear blast near the target is going to be rough. Survivors will likely be on the outskirts of wherever it hits, being honest. The amount more powerful a modern big fusion bomb is than what we dropped on Japan in 1945 boggles the mind. It's almost impossible to conceive of how bad they are. Like, if a huge one was dropped on San Fran, about a million people would be dead immediately, plus some unknown potentially large number more due to fallout. Simulated map here: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=2300&lat=37.7564509&lng=-122.4245517&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=13523&fallout=1&ff=50&psi=20,5,1&zm=11 https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=2300&lat=37.7564509&...
- graderjs 4y agoYeah new bombs are crazy. No loss of cool if you're not--you're a nuke physicist, that's cool enough--but are you The Nukemap guy? Wow! That site is great, but scary.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoNo I'm not Alex wellerstein the nuclear history professor. He has like 44k followers on Twitter and a blue tick. I only have like 10k and no blue tick ;'(