Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear War and Electromagnetic Pulse Conflict

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

(ENW - Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Chapter and paragraph))

ENW: 2.04 The fireball from a 1 Megaton nuclear weapon would appear to an observer 50 miles away to be many times more brilliant than the sun at noon.

Direct Weapons Effects

EMP Electromagnetic Pulse Initial Nuclear Radiation

Thermal Radiation Blast Wave

Residual Weapons Effects

Fallout Nuclear Winter

Nuclear Detonations Veterans

Detonation Photos

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ENW: 2.05 Within seven-tenths of a millisecond from the detonation, the fireball from a 1-megaton weapon is about 440 feet across, and this increases to a maximum value of about 7,200 feet in 10 seconds.

In the air burst explosions (approx 1850 ft. roughly 18 Kt weapons) over Hiroshima and Nagasaki solid materials on the ground were heated to 3,000 to 4,000 degrees C (5,400 to 7,200 F). From: ENW 7.31

Heat from a 1 Megaton detonation can start fires 11 miles away. From: ENW 7.47