I’ve always wondered why only nuclear bombs detonate before hitting the ground and not the actual moment of impact. Does it affect the amount of damage? or does it reduce nuclear waste and radiation?
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Pretend you have a baseball and a beach ball. Now imagine you have a row of empty cans lined up side by side. If you’re trying to knock as many of the cans down in one throw, the beach ball knocks down more.
Nukes are kind of like having a baseball in the middle of a beachball, where the radius of the beachball is filled with overpressure, shockwave, some thermal energy, a little radiation.
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