How many nuclear bombs would equal the sun?
We get the astonishingly huge amount of 400 trillion trillion watts. To put this into a crazy context, every second the sun produces the same energy as about a trillion 1 megaton bombs! In one second, our sun produces enough energy for almost 500,000 years of the current needs of our so-called civilization.
How hot are nuclear blasts?
About 0.2 seconds after the detonation over Hiroshima, the fireball created reached a surface temperature of 7,700 degrees Celsius. From 0.2 to 3 seconds after detonation, the intense heat emitted from the fireball exerted powerful effects on the ground.
How hot is a nuclear bomb in Fahrenheit?
The intense heat from a nuclear explosion causes burns to human skin and a temporary condition called “flashblindness.” The maximum temperature achieved by a fission weapon is several tens of million degrees. A standard chemical high-explosive produces only 5,000 degrees centigrade (9,000 degrees Fahrenheit).
Can the sun be nuked?
Nothing, it’s sort of constantly nuking itself. Large solar flares, natural explosions on the surface of the Sun, can release about 22 million times the energy that would be produced by setting off our entire global nuclear arsenal.
What is the strongest nuclear bomb?
Tsar Bomba
Within ten minutes, it had reached a height of 42 miles and a diameter of some 60 miles. One civilian witness remarked that it was “as if the Earth was killed.” Decades later, the weapon would be given the name it is most commonly known by today: Tsar Bomba, meaning “emperor bomb.”
Could a nuke turn Jupiter into a star?
So, can we turn Jupiter into a low-mass brown dwarf star using a thermonuclear warhead? No. The nuke isn’t the problem, it’s the mass of Jupiter. It’s simply too small to sustain even the smallest nuclear fusion reaction.
What happens if you nuke a volcano?
If you dropped a nuclear bomb into the crater of an extinct volcano, you would flatten the mountain out a bit but you wouldn’t set the volcano off because there wouldn’t be any pre-existing upwelling of magma.
What’s the world’s most powerful weapon?
Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”) , byname of RDS-220, also called Big Ivan, Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.
