Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Nukes, oh my!

In the book a nuke is used.  I needed to nuke a small 3 kilometer wide valley. 

The method is a deuterium-tritium capsule collapsed by a lithium ring with magnetism.  The amount of fuel could be variable, allowing the nuker to set the size of the detonation, I'm thinking.  I'm not sure about this, so I didn't specify that in my writing. 

What I did do was research nuclear bursts, and the areas of effect.

I used a 2 kiloton yield to achieve my goal. 

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

You too can nuke the place of your choice, with the yield that you like the most.

Let's hope this never happens.  But it does in my story.


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