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Nuclear bomb kill radius table

Nuclear bombs are a general term for weapons such as atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs that use fusion fission reactions.

The lethality and destructive power of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs are calculated in equivalents, and 1 equivalent is equal to the energy of a 1 ton of TNT explosion.

Generally speaking, hydrogen bombs have greater lethality, which means that hydrogen bombs can achieve greater equivalents, but it is not ruled out that the atomic bombs have greater equivalents than hydrogen bombs.

The world's largest equivalent hydrogen bomb was manufactured and successfully tested by the former Soviet Union. It is said that there are 30 million equivalents to be tested on a small island in the Pacific Ocean and successfully erased the island on the map.

The energy released by a nuclear bomb during an air explosion (air explosion) is roughly converted into lethality in the following proportion: shock wave accounts for 50%, optical radiation 35%, nuclear radiation 5%, and radioactive contamination 10%.

The killing of various factors on ground exposed personnel (referring to immediate death or loss of combat effectiveness) by various factors when nuclear bombs of different equivalents explode. The radius table (unit is kilometers):

1,000 tons: 0.18 kilometers of nuclear shock wave 0.16 kilometers of optical radiation 0.71 kilometers of nuclear radiation

10,000 tons: 0.45 nuclear shock wave 0.57 optical radiation 1.00 through nuclear radiation

One hundred thousand tons: 1.15 nuclear shock wave 1.87 optical radiation 1.48 permeable nuclear radiation

Million tons: 2.87 nuclear shock wave 5.60 optical radiation 1.98 permeable nuclear radiation

After calculation experiments, the damage radius of underground facilities by shock waves when a million-ton nuclear bomb explodes is 4.8 kilometers.

It can be seen from this that the penetrating nuclear radiation of small-equivalent nuclear bombs has the greatest lethality, while the optical radiation of large-equivalent nuclear bombs has the greatest strength.

The above different killing effects act on the human body at the same time, so the comprehensive killing radius of nuclear bombs is larger than that listed in the above table. The killing radius of different equivalents of nuclear bombs on different states that everyone is most concerned about is as follows (unit is kilometers):

1,000 tons: 0.85; 10,000 tons: 1.5;

One hundred thousand tons: 3.1; one million tons: 6.3;

Tens of millions of tons: 12
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