What would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped directly above a 10 kg diamond?
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The diamond wouldn't exist anymore. All you'd have is charred carbon everywhere.\n\nIf one modern nuclear bomb can vaporize all the water in the San Francisco Bay, it can make a 10 kg diamond disappear.
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In a 2-megaton explosion over a fairly large city, buildings would be vaporized, people reduced to atoms and shadows, outlying structures blown down like matchsticks and raging fires ignited. And if the bomb were exploded on the ground, an enormous crater, like those that can be seen through a telescope on the surface of the Moon, would be all that remained where midtown once had been. \n\nThere are now more than 50,000 nuclear weapons, more than 13,000 megatons of yield, deployed in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union -- enough to obliterate a million Hiroshimas. \n\nBut there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Thus, there are vastly more nuclear weapons than are needed for any plausible deterrence of a potential adversary.
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a neutron bomb,\n\nit explodes about 10,000 feet in the air is will kill all living flesh with in a hundredf miles of ground zero there is no escape. It takes like 20 of solid concrete wall or 6-10 feet of solid lead on all side to stop the rays.  The rays cook flesh as if it was put in a microwave oven.  It is not radioactive like the atomic bomb within hours after the blast the area is inhabitable again.  Just clean up the cooked bodies.  Its very wicked weapon and yes we have it.
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Theres no system, but lots of ideas.  And none of the reasonable sane ideas include drilling a hole and dropping a nuclear bomb into the asteroid.  Damn you bruce willis, damn you.\n\nConsidering it only takes a meteor of about 50m to produce an explosion the size of a decent nuclear bomb, its very scary, look up tunguska 1908 impact.
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Kids bits in brackets :)\n\nAn atom bomb works by firing a proton/neutron (a little part of an atom) at a mass of uranium (nuclear material) the proton goes into the uranium and eventually hits and joins with an atom of uranium, that atom is now unstable (a bit like too many people on a ladder) so to make it self stable it loses some protons (some people fall off the ladder), usually 2 or 3 (that's the bit they call fission), these fire off and hit other atoms repeating the process in a chain. if the amount of uranium is small then a lot of the protons fly out of the uranium and do nothing, however if there is enough uranium the protons are contained in the mass and break up even more atoms, leading to a catastrophic chain reaction (KaaaaBOOOOOOM)!!! \n\n***Try shouting the last part it should get a few laughs :)\n\nPS. because the uranium lost more protons than was originally put into it as extra, it is no longer standard uranium, this is called a uranium isotope.\n\nbrubeck_take5 yeah I remember the ping-pong ball video... really cool, wouldn't mind seeing that again... gonna see if I can find it... let you know :)\n\nhere goes... thing the slow motion one is the best\n\nhttp://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/content/modern/mousetrap_reactor/trap_sideview_slow_high.wmv\n\nbut if you want to look at them all\n\nhttp://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/content/modern/mousetrap_reactor/mousetrap_reactor.html
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well that is a difficult question... actually it depends on the bomb \nalso....\nand what exactly happens is the blast covers a qutie a good area... but along with the blast the hot gases released during and after the fission also causes devastation because the temprature of the gas molecules is very high...
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There was rumor that there was no atomic bomb during the WW2.The US tried to paradrop Chuck Norris at Hiroshima but the cables snagged and Chuck Norris fell off.The impact of Chuck Norris to the ground was able to split the atom and there was a huge explosion,Everyone was killed exept Chuck Norris.A few hours later,the impact travelled via undeground going to Nagazaki,the same thing happened.
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You have to learn how to do simple arithmetic, and understand simple physics like the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy.\n\nThen you will see that the effect of the biggest possible nuclear explosion on the Earth's orbit is like the effect of an insect landing on the Empire State Building.  The Earth has been pushed by radiation from solar flares with enormously more energy, hit by asteroids with enormously more momentum, than any puny little man-made nuclear explosion, and its orbit was still not affected measurably.
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about ten times an atomic bomb
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Khrushchev warned in a filmed speech to the Communist parliament of the existence of a 100 Mt bomb. \nThe Bomb called the Tsar was dropped from a TU 95 at a height of 10.500 metres using a parachute drop.The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane10,500 metres, and was seen 1,000 km away. The heat could have caused third degree burns at a distance of 100 km. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high and 30–40 km wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, even breaking windows there.[citation needed] Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the earth.
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Only if it was a hammer reinforced with diamond particles.  Otherwise, no...diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth.
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Theoretically, a hurricane could be aborted by rapid, extensive cooling of the ocean underneath (we are far away from being able to do something like that, but we're talking theoretical).  The force of a hurricane equals a nuclear bomb every 15 seconds or so-and covers thousands of square miles.  Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane would likely have almost no effect on it.  If there were an effect, it would likely increase the force of the hurricane, not decrease it, since it would increase the amount of energy and heat available.
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Not until a large scale disaster. The only people dumb enough to do it are terrorist. They would most likely detonate a dirty bomb in New York or L.A. to maximize damage. I would say if it did happen sometime after 2010. No country would risk nuking us because we would destroy them.
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Pure oxygen, it would just explode. Very dangerous.
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It all depends on the country and the number of missiles with the nuclear warheads on them. It the country only had about 10 bomb it would definitely be possible. A country like Russia or China with 1000s of warheads it would be nearly impossible.
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this is the report on the one dropped on hiroshima it was the same as 12.5 thousand tons of tnt think tiny in comparison to the monsters now in the inventory Intense thermal heat emitted by the fireball caused severe burns and loss of eyesight. Thermal burns of bare skin occurred as far as 3.5 kilometers from ground zero (directly below the burst point). Most people exposed to thermal rays within 1-kilometer radius of ground zero died. Tile and glass melted; all combustible materials were consumed. \nBlast. An atomic explosion causes an enormous shock wave followed instanteneously by a rapid expansion of air called the blast; these represent roughtly half the explosion's released energy. Maximum wind pressure of the blast: 35 tons per square meter. Maximum wind velocity: 440 meters per second. Wooden houses within 2.3 kilometers of ground zero collapsed. Concrete buildings near ground zero (thus hit by the blast from above) had ceilings crushed and windows and doors blown off. Many people were trapped under fallen strunctures and burned to death. \nRadiation. People exposure within 500 meters of ground zero was fatal. People exposed at distances of 3 to 5 kilometers later showed symptoms of aftereffects, including radiation-induced cancers. exploded
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IF YOU DON'T BLOW UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU'LL BE A MILLIONAIRE \nSERIOUSLY HOW MUCH RADIATION WOULD HAPPEN