What Will happen if a nuclear bomb is drop into a human mouth?
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better drop it into your vagina asshole
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Assuming you're asking about a plain ol' atomic bomb, the process at its heart is called fission. At the core of such a bomb is a relatively unstable material, like uranium. Surrounding this core is a shaped explosive charge. When this charge is set off, the core material undergoes tremendous compression, increasing its density to the point that individual sub-atomic particles (neutrons) ram together which releases more particles which ram together, which releases more particles, and so on. Each particle collision releases energy --- nuclear fission has occurred and the bomb detonates.
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The tactical nukes are under the 50 kiloton ranges, some as low as .3 kilotons, used for fighting advancing armies, or small targets.  \n\nThe strategic nukes, however, will takeout whole cities and cause widespread contamination, in the 100-500 kiloton range. They've built higher kilotons, but supposedly, they've been stockpiled or disassembled.  One or two strategic nuclear detonations, or even 50 would not cause world-wide contamination, its when you get into a full nuclear exchange, between the US and Russia with 1,000s of nukes going off, is when life would be 'unlivable.'\n\nThe W.H.O. predicted in 1982 that "1.1 billion people would be killed outright in such a nuclear war, mainly in the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, China and Japan. An additional 1.1 billion people would suffer serious injures and radiation sickness, for which medical help would be unavailable. It thus seems possible that more than 2 billion people-almost half of all the humans on Earth-would be destroyed in the immediate aftermath of a global thermonuclear war. ... would probably be enough to reduce at least the Northern Hemisphere to a state of prolonged agony and barbarism." \n\nCarl Sagan made a case that "a war in which a mere 100 megatons were exploded, less than one percent of the world arsenals, and only in low-yield airbursts over cities. ....would ignite thousands of fires, and the smoke from these fires alone would be enough to generate an epoch of cold and dark almost as severe as in the 5000 megaton case. The threshold for ...The Nuclear Winter is very low."
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First, due to the extremely low pressure- 0 pascals - all of the liquids in your body have their boling/freezing points lowered to the same temperature; all of your exposed fluids will boil: tears on eyes, saliva, urine (depending on the person's ability to keep his or her cool). Then, the capillaries around and on your eyeballs and other mucous membranes would rupture, spraying boiling blood into space. After about 20 seconds the normal person would be unconcious, though NASA trains its astronauts to last a full minute. After about 3 minutes you would succumb to suffocation, and you body would drift to space, nearly perfectly preserved, until:\n-It finally reentered Earth's atmosphere (assuming you were in Earth's orbit), where it would vaporize; \n-It hit another space object, such as an asteroid; \n-It is pulled in by another planet. \nIt all really depends on your location.\n\nP.S. contrary to popular belief, you would NOT explode. Your body structure and skin tautness will prevent that; however, you will probably reach a very unsightly level of bloating.
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Atomic energy states that if we can "break" the energy bonds that keep one atom´s parts together, we would create a chain reaction in surrounding atoms.  This is achieved when we have what is called "critical mass", meaning that we have enough radioactive material for the chain reaction to occur.  Nuclear bombs can be fusion or fision bombs.  In a fision bomb, an atom´s nucleous is bombarded with neutrons and becomes so heavy that it splits as the result of a force (detonation of a small explosive charge), creating th chain reaction already described.  On a fusion bomb, the energy of the detonation combines together two or more radiactive elements to for another.  Each kind of bomb has its pros and cons. Both are very destructive.  Upon detonation a nuclear bomb creates an explosion that is so powerfull that can disipate a huge volume of atmospheric air and so much heat that burns everything on a several miles radius.  A few seconds after the explosion, the weight of the atmosphere pushes the air back to the void, creating an implosion, so you have two kind of destructive forces working in opposite directions with a difference of only seconds.  Then, radiation affects all organisms in the nearby areas and makes impossible to live in them for decades.
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Depleted Uranium dust can cause death and/or permanent genetic damage in doses under 10mg. Our troops in Iraq are inhaling it every day.
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You try to bombard u-235 with a neutron.
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Nothing.  A warhead would have no effect, since it would be fryed, melted, crushed, and sucked into the black hole.  It wouldnt even make it past 10 feet before all of that happenes to it from a black hole.
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It gets hotter, expands, and thins.  Eventually the radiation gets past it.  \n\nIf there is enough buildup of radiation from the core, you can have explosive effects.
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a) a nuclear disaster falls under physics, not chemistry\nb) Yahoo Answers does not exist to do your homework for you.
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humans are part of nature, so i'm worried most about some human pushing the BIG button..... a tsunami will wipe out some people, but atomic weapons detonating all over the planet would end us all.
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Easily.  If there was a cut or anything in the mouth while this happened, the infection an be transmitted.
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I suspect you're referring to the "China syndrome," where a nuclear meltdown could supposedly bore all the way through the earth to the opposite side. This cannot happen. Any meltdown will only bore through the ground until it hits the water table, at which time it will be discharged back into the atmosphere with the steam. Even if there were no water table, the fissile material would stop when it reached the earth's core, since it cannot fight upward against gravity.\n\nThe accident at Chernoybl, if I remember correctly, never even reached the water table. It was controlled by the containment facility.
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Everyone loses..use of nuclear weapons would throw the world into nuclear winter. \n\nSurvivors cockroaches
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Keep in mind, I'm not a nuclear Engineer or a nuclear specialist.  I haven't studied nuclear physics since college 10 years ago.\n\nRadiation in any form is dangerous.  It is just whether the benfits outweigh the potential ill side effects.\n\nRadiation is actually caused by the decay of a radiactive subtance.  Radiation takes three forms, alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.\n\nAlpha radiation consists of 2 protons and 2 neutrons.  Alpha particles are slow and can not penetrate much.  This type of radiation can be stopped by something as thin as a sheet of paper or clothing.\n\nBeta radiation is actually an electron.  While beta radiation penetrates more than alpha radiation, it is still weak.  It can be stopped by thin metals, such as a sheet of foil.\nGamma radiation is the radiation that is very deadly.  Gamma radiation is actually a wave and not a particle.  It can only be stopped by thick layers of dirt, concrete, or lead.\n\nDuring nuclear fallout, a person doesn’t become radioactive per se.  What happens is the dust and particles collected on their clothing emits radiation.  You may have heard of radiation suits.  Radiation suits do not stop radiation, rather their purpose is to prevent radioactive particles from becoming embedded in hair, skin, or clothing.  Once the person gets away from the contaminated area, they wash the suit, disrobe, and (my guess) run like hell.\n\nRadiation sickness is caused by an overdose of radiation.  The danger of radiation is that it kills the cells of any living thing that it strikes.  This can be beneficial in a medical setting like when a radiation beam is used to kill cancer cells in a patient.  However, when a person is exposed to uncontrolled radiation over a prolonged period of time, many of the cells in their body are killed.  Just like anything else, dead things begin to decay and rot.  Radiation sickness is essentially the body becoming poisoned and weak from the loss of cells and decaying cells in their body.\n\nWithout adequate protection during radiation fallout, radioactive particles become ingested, inhaled, and embedded on the skin.  \n\nI hope this helps a little
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It was low-enriched uranium, not weapons grade. So the answer is NONE. No nukes with THAT uranium. It would have to be enriched , and would amount to a miniscule amount after that.\n\n"could potentially be used in a radiological dispersal device," or dirty bomb.
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Of course, if he has a damage in his mouth's tissue, you will infect him.