Can a nuke even blow up in space?

[Dorian Breh]

when the nuke goes of, the force of the blast is only one part of it.
the radiation is the other part.

imagine a dust storm comes through your city but it's radioactive.
that's the fallout that settles in the blast area or gets taken away in the wind.
i think scientist in France were the first to detect fallout from Chernobyl.

What is the substance in the fallout? Is it tiny particles from the radioactive material that detonated? Because electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light, it should dissipate instantly unless it hits you directly. Are there bits of uranium on the ground in Chernobyl?

 

[RARI_Godwind]

There are still particles from the Big Bang, 14 BILLION years ago, accelerating away from the initial explosion. If they don't encounter any other particles/masses, they'll be going after our Sun goes nova.​

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

Yes a nuke would.



It would essentially blow up in slow motions for me...













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[Orbital-Fetus]

What is the substance in the fallout? Is it tiny particles from the radioactive material that detonated? Because electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light, it should dissipate instantly unless it hits you directly. Are there bits of uranium on the ground in Chernobyl?

it's anything that gets blown into the air by the blast.
the actual environment the bomb detonates in becomes the fallout.

all that soil, fallout.
ashes from the fires, fallout.
pulverized buildings, fallout.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Why don't yall ever use the internet for answering these simply answerable questions?!!

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I wonder if a dead human or an animal can decay in outter space.

Breh, when people die climbing Mount Everest, they just leave them there. Some of the bodies have been there for decades and won't decay, although they might erode away. The lowest temp there was about -40° F. The average temperature in space is.........​

-455° F

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[Gold]

Breaking atomic bonds creates heat. Heating oxygen creates fire. There isnt any oxygen in space so there wont be any fire.

What does that have to do what i posted.


A nuclear bomb is still gonna explode in space, fire or not. Look at any star

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

That question is deeper than most people realize

talk to ‘em

 

[Darth Nubian]

What does that have to do what i posted.


A nuclear bomb is still gonna explode in space, fire or not. Look at any star

Because nuclear weapons aren't exploding doofus. The sub atomic particles of the enriched material are being broken which is an exothermic reaction that releases heat(energy). Explosions dont change the component materials on an atomic level.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

talk to ‘em

He needs to STFU. He believes the Earth is flat and the Moon is a hologram.

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[Vandelay]

This used to be such a great site for this type of information...might still be...


Striving For A Safer World Since 1945

Haven't been here in years, but they used to have a ton of information specific to nuclear testing and capabilities for every country.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

What does that have to do what i posted.


A nuclear bomb is still gonna explode in space, fire or not. Look at any star

Stars aren't exploding, though. Stars are gigantic atomic fusion reactors. The byproduct of atomic fusion is energy in the forms of light and heat.​

 

[Vandelay]

Stars aren't exploding, though. Stars are gigantic atomic fusion reactors. The byproduct of atomic fusion is energy in the forms of light and heat.​

Think he meant Supernova.

 

[Sex Luthor]

So how do Space shuttles move themselves around while in space if they can't make fire via jet propulsion?

For a rocket, the accelerated gas, or working fluid, is the hot exhaust; the surrounding atmosphere is not used. That's why a rocket will work in space, where there is no surrounding air, and a jet engine or propeller will not work.
Rocket Propulsion

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Think he meant Supernova.

Ahh, ok. That's a bit different, but, there's still no fire. Just a MASSIVE ejection of billions of tons superheated plasma. If you have a decent telescope, you can actually see what happened after a supernova occurred in the Crab Nebula.........​