Sentences with phrase «megaton nuclear bomb»

The heat release is equivalent to a 10 - megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.

For more practical, non - «one - megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas» purposes, it would also protect a microgrid from solar storms.

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

When the hole shrivels to a mass of about 106 kilograms, the game is up: within a second, it explodes with the energy of a million - megaton nuclear bomb.

The heat energy of a fully formed hurricane is «equivalent to a 10 - megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes,» as NOAA meteorologist Chris Landsea has explained.

Test # 123 used a 12.5 megaton nuclear bomb.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

Not exact matches

Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one - megaton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.