[badgerstatevolunteers] Rehump Debate
- From: Joe SPIKE <virtualadonis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Badger State Volunteers <badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:57:33 -0600
The first nuclear bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima Japan August 6, 1945
at 08:15:17. That fission bomb bombarded a uranium 235/92U atom with a neutron
1/0n –> giving 141/56 Ba + 92/36K + 31/0n.The explosive power was equal to
13,500 tons of TNT. The temperature of the fireball was estimated to have been
a million degrees. The shock wave traveled at the speed of sound, 11,000 feet
per second, causing the temperature 3/4 of a mile away to reach 5,400 degrees
Fahrenheit; continuing to travel out a distance of one mile destroying all non
reinforced buildings. An estimated 70,000 casualties in the initial explosion
and another 30,000 died because of radiation and injuries. I am not certain the
type of radiation emitted (1/0n a nuetron) but the casualties where low.
Today's hydrogen bombs combine two hydrogen 2/1H +2/1H atoms to form —> 4/2He
bomb which emits a low penetrating (can be stopped by clothing and distance)
alpha particle which is a nucleus of a Helium 4/2He atom minus its electrons.
The loss of two electrons gives the He ion a +2 charge. The helium ion is to
large to penetrate more that a 1/4 inch below skin and can be shielded by
clothing and distance. However once ingested into the body through breathing or
eating this highly charged particle will cause major damage including DNA
re-sequencing. The energy of a hydrogen bomb is 500,000,000 tons of TNT causing
a one mile wide crater, a three mile wide fireball,a ten mile high one hundred
mile wide radioactive cloud of alpha particles will follow the wind, with sever
to moderate explosive damage out 7 miles and light damage out 10 miles.
Ultimately 150 sq. miles of damage. Again alpha radiation can be shielded with
clothing and a wet cloth or gas mask over the face. Provided one is not in the
7 mile circumference blast zone and follows proper radiation protocol the
survival rate is good.
A fission explosion is used to start the fusion bomb so both bombs give off
gamma and x-rays during the initial explosion but the range of his is limited
to maybe 3 miles which explains the burns sustained by victims.
References:
Movie: Rain of Ruin
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005271F/atohyd.html
http://www.encyclomedia.com/hydrogen_bomb.html
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