Day of the Bomb

Three Things Necessary to Build an Atomic Bomb

1. Knowledge of how it works.2. Amount of Uranium 235 or Plutonium

239.3. Way to bring it together where you want

it (delivery system).

Defense• Conquest• First Strike• Problem is Second

Strike

Defense• Intimidation• M.A.D.

Defense• Fortification• Missile Shield (Star Wars)

Defense• Friendship• Detente

Effects of 5 Megaton Device• = 5 million tons of TNT• Blast Wave- 12.5 miles per minute (overpressure), 80%

structural damage within 15 mile radius, rest will burn.• Thermal Wave- 186,000 miles per second, fatal burns for

up to 15-20 miles, firestorm over 500 square miles• ½ life of Plutonium 239 24,400 years, one speck less

than grain of sand can cause lung and bone tumors• REM- Roentgen Equivalent Man= for every 100 REMS

of TOTAL exposure 15% fatality in 30 days• Ground Zero- crater 200 feet deep and 1000 feet across• Flash- will blind anyone who sees it within 20 miles• EMP- no electronic device will operate within a 30 mile

radius and pipes and wires will become electrified.

Zero

12 Miles

20 miles

Dose-rem

Effects

5-20 Possible late effects; possible chromosomal damage.

20-100 Temporary reduction in white blood cells. 100-200 Mild radiation sickness within a few hours:

vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue; reduction in resistance to infection.

200-300 Serious radiation sickness effects as in 100-200 rem and hemorrhage; exposure is a Lethal Dose to 10-35% of the population after 30 days (LD 10-35/30).

300-400 Serious radiation sickness; also marrow and intestine destruction; LD 50-70/30.

400-1000 Acute illness, early death; LD 60-95/30. 1000-5000

Acute illness, early death in days; LD 100/10.

Peak overpressure Maximum Wind Speed 50 psi 934 mph

20 psi 502 mph

10 psi 294 mph

5 psi 163 mph

2 psi 70 mph

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