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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Nukes are quite dangerous in outer space. Much of the energy comes out as x-rays. The atmosphere is opaque to them, so a lot of the energy goes into ionizing the air. In space, the x-rays just keep going the lethal distance is much further than on Earth. For a multi-megaton shot, the lethal distance is hundreds of miles.
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