By al-Din on August 15, 2010 7:25 PM
The rogue state Israel is using nuclear arsenal as a deterrent and to intimidate Middle East countries. It wouldn't nuke its neighbours because the radiation fallout from the nuclear explosion will destroy Israel also. Only as a last desperate measure Israel may use it to bring everyone to oblivion.
The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 weighed about 10,000lbs and contained 15 lbs of Plutonium-239. The energy released was equivalent to 20,000 tons (20KT), of TNT, which corresponds to 1.3KT/lb of Pu-239. It wiped out 40% of the city and killed about 35,000 people.
The destructive effects of such bomb size include:
1. Ground burst crater
Diameter 600ft
Depth 40ft
2. Blast destruction of buildings, radius (miles)
Brick-ground burst 0.9
Brick-air burst 1.2
Woood-ground burst 1.5
Wood-air burst 2.0
3. Fire, radius (miles)
Destroys everything combustible 0.7
People received 2nd degree burns 2.1
4. Initial gamma radiation of 500R, radius (miles) 0.8
After more than 60 years, the US attended the annual remembrance day at Hiroshima recently.
Knowledge is power and can be evil depending on who and how we use it.
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