what damage will a nuke do

[et's daddy]

ive been wondering about this

assume we drop a nuke on Iran

personally i dont know the full power of a nuke

but could it devestate the oil fields ?

and what could the underground ramafications be ?

i know alot of the oil lies underground, could such a blast cause more damage then we bargin for ?

i fear we arent truly prepared for such an event

(im not worried about the oil fields for the sake of the oil, but truly for the sake of the landscape. i think dropping such a bomb could be more catastrophic then we are aware)

[Conspiracy]

dropping a nuke anywhere will mess up the land in a horrible way.

and ya im pretty sure it would reck the oil fields

Edited March 6, 2006 by Conspiracy

[KingTomis]

perhaps it will make radioactive oil with super powers.

Kind of like the incredible hulk.

One drop of super oil can make 10 gallons of gasoline.

[Thanato]

As well as the stability of the world.

~Thanato

[Stellar]

What yield?

[et's daddy]

What yield?

im honestly very ignorant in such matters (a crime on these boards i know)

there must be a standard average expected to be used in such a scenerio ?

found it

"The U.S. weapons now fall principally within the 100 Kt to 375 Kt range, the average being approximately 250 Kt."

http://www.nukefix.org/weapon.html

so suppose it is a 250 Kt nuclear bomb, hits smack in an oil fiels with millions of gallons of oil underground

i suppose the resulting blast from the oil igniting may be a mute point but i dont know

edit: seems it would atleast leave one hell of a hole in the ground

Edited March 6, 2006 by et's daddy

[Fluffybunny]

Nuclear explosion size demonstration

This site will show the size of explosions against different city maps. Kind of scary.

Weapons damage calculator

The single such Tu-95V carried the RDS-220 partially protruding from the bomb bay.[63, 64] The test on 30 October 1961 was at a yield of 58 megatons (the U.S. estimated 58 mt.

Based on one 58 megatons I get the following damage information:

Input Weapon Yield

Yield (megatons): 58

Calculated Values

Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns) 61.6 kilometres

Air blast radius (widespread destruction) 27.6 kilometres

Air blast radius (near-total fatalities) 10.4 kilometres

Ionizing radiation radius (500 rem) 6.8 kilometres

Fireball duration 28 seconds

Fireball radius (minimum) 2.2 kilometres

Fireball radius (airburst) 2.7 kilometres

Fireball radius (ground-contact airburst) 3.5 kilometres

[Sanjuro]

I hope no one drops these, because everyone will suffer as mother earth will suffer.

Radiation will stay on earth and suck into rotation...

[supercar]

The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were airbust. They exploded 1900 feet above ground. It's concievable a nuclear bomb could be detonated in such a way as to preserve the oil fields.

I hope and pray a nuclear bomb will never be used anywhere in the world.

[__Kratos__]

The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were airbust. They exploded 1900 feet above ground. It's concievable a nuclear bomb could be detonated in such a way as to preserve the oil fields.

I hope and pray a nuclear bomb will never be used anywhere in the world.

It's done that way for maximum power of the nuclear device though. Even still the *looks at Fluffy's post quick* thermal radiation radius would start anything on fire within 61.6 kilometres (38.2 miles) so the oil being pumped up would catch fire, and it's not really like a firefighting crew can just go into the blast zone and put it out because of the insanely high radiation levels.

[Thanato]

Airbursts are also better for combat. One it doubles teh damage of a ground burst and 2 the radiation is cleared up alot quicker. The ground isnt saturated.

~Thanato

[Baku]

Nuking the Iran oil field will have devestating consequences for not only Iran but for China aswell. It will cut of the about 10% of China's oil and China will be p***ed off. So the US gotta be really desperate in order to use nukes on Iran.

[+joc]

We aren't going to nuke anybody. And no one is going to nuke us...

I cannot even imagine 4MT. Below is a link to a video of the largest bomb available in 1954, 15 metatons...it is like a firecracker compared to a 4MT.

Bomb Video

[Bella-Angelique]

We aren't going to nuke anybody. And no one is going to nuke us...

If any city in the USA has a nuke of any type go off in it someone else is likely to fry.

Small ones do exist that can blow out a smaller area than those used in Japan with a less extensive immediate radiation spread.

[PadawanOsswe]

if we wanted to destroy Iran's Oil Fields.......we would'nt need a nuke.

a good ole' Bunker Buster should do the trick!

a nuke would just be overkill

[et's daddy]

if we wanted to destroy Iran's Oil Fields.......we would'nt need a nuke.

that wasnt the point of this thread though

i just wondered what such an attack would do to the landscape, the map