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Without telling us exactly where you are, how likely do you think you would survive? Is your home a potential target, and what kind of damage could you expect based on your distance from potential targets.
The range of the Tsar Bomba for reference. Any nuclear radiation will fall to safe levels after a month or two.
As for me, my home city is a minor finance and manufacturing hub for my country. It's not likely to be hit as higher value targets would be prioritized, but if it does it I'll either not survive or have severe lifelong complications.
The range of the Tsar Bomba for reference. Any nuclear radiation will fall to safe levels after a month or two.
The Soviet Union built the largest thermonuclear bomb in human history. The name of the bomb was Tsar Bomba.
- It had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT.
- Fireball radius was 2.3 km or covering 16.61 square kilometers.
- Radiation radius: 7.49 km or covering 176 Square km,
- Airblast radius: 12.51 km or covering 491square km,
- Thermal radiation radius: 77.06 km or covering 18626 square km. It was about 3,333 times more powerful than the Little Boy.
- The intense heat from the detonation was capable of causing third-degree burns at a distance of 62 miles from ground zero.
- The shock wave was felt by the people as far away as 692 km, and window glasses were shattered at a distance of 900 km from ground zero.
- Though the bomb was exploded 13,000 feet above the ground, its Richter Magnitude was registered at 5–5.25. The seismic waves traveled three times around the world.
- Tsar Bomba was ten times more powerful than the explosive power of all the conventional weapons used in the Second World War.
As for me, my home city is a minor finance and manufacturing hub for my country. It's not likely to be hit as higher value targets would be prioritized, but if it does it I'll either not survive or have severe lifelong complications.