Originally posted by SnafuFlux:
Would a human body vaporize like that?



Yes in the immediate blast zone, most things would vaporize. Someone already mentioned the vast heat produced.

Imagine what a REAL nuclear bomb would/ could do. These 2 bombs were relatively small Atomic bombs - yielding about:

Hiroshima - "Little Boy" bomb - 15 kilotons.
Nagasaki - "Fat Man" bomb - 21 kilotons.
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A kiloton = the explosive force of 1000 metric tons of TNT (Dynamite). ( reference)

The type of nuclear weapons that the US and Russia had during the Cold War, had yields in the hundreds of kilotons. For example, the "Peacekeeper" missile (more commonly known as the "MX" missile) could carry up to 10 warheads EACH with a 300 kiloton yield.

One "Peacekeeper" missile could drop multiple warheads on multiple targets and the total yield of that one missile would be measured in the megatons (1 megaton = 1 million metric tons of TNT). The US had 50 of them during the height of the Cold War.
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That is just plain crazy! The destructive power is truly mind boggling. I have always found the physics and engineering of these sorts of weapons to be fascinating. But the potential power is SCARY ! ! !

That is why we must keep a good watch on North Korea's weapon development program. I don't get political but the thought of this sort of power in the hands of that man... Truly scary.

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