Not talking about your ship exploding, that’s obviously bad. I’m talking about how much damage would a bomb actually do if exploded in the moon for example. I understand there is no atmosphere to push against, but I don’t understand what else appart from the shrapnel could cause damage. Isn’t most of a bomb’s damage produced by the shockwave? And shockwaves cannot be produced in a vacuum, right?
Also, let’s say it’s a nuclear bomb. The radiation is obviously bad, but with some shielding, same here, what damage will it actually do?
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It basically doesn’t slow down from velocities on the order of typical bullets, until it hits the ground, or something else. Likewise meteoroid impacts on the moon can potentially produce a lot of fast moving shrapnel/ejecta which travels dozens of km.
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