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EX500rider

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6. "...just 25 miles from his front door....before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows,"

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:34 PM

Feb 2024

Yeah, not possible at that range.

A 25 kiloton explosion drops below 1 psi overpressure at 5k, 25m is 40k.

You can run the numbers here:
https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/Node/104

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