Chapter 980 Nuclear Age (2)

(I just saved it and forgot to publish it regularly. I only saw it now that it was not published)

"Everyone put on your goggles." Otherwise, your eyes will be blinded.

Seeing Yannick put on the goggles first, everyone picked up the goggles handed over by the attendant and put them on.

"It's so dark, can you see clearly?" Prince Oscar muttered as he put on his goggles and felt that the sky suddenly turned dark.

Yannick ignored him and placed his left hand on the detonation button. With a little force, he could press it. "Are you ready?"

The officer on the side nodded. "Yes, Your Highness, you can detonate it at any time."

"5!" As Yanik counted down, several experimenters in white coats stared nervously at the red button under Yanik's hand, with sweat dripping from their foreheads.

"4!" The heads of state couldn't help but swallowed their saliva. They still can't imagine how a bomb weighing less than one ton can explode with the energy of 50,000 tons of TNT. Everyone crowded in front of the thick glass windows, staring at the city in the distance. To be precise, it was a tower with a height of more than 100 meters in the center of the city. According to His Highness Yannick, the super bomb was Placed on top of the tower.

"3!" Yannick found that his voice was trembling slightly, and his left hand holding the detonation button could not help but tremble slightly. After all, he was just an ordinary person in the original time and space. He had never even seen a grenade, let alone an atomic egg. And now that he was going to detonate such a world-destroying weapon with his own hands, how could he not be nervous?

"2!" Yannick gritted his teeth and said the penultimate number, trying to control his increasingly trembling left hand.

"1!" Everyone in the observation room held their breath almost at the same time. As Yannick pressed the detonation button hard, everyone saw a scene that they would never forget.

At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945 in original time and space, the United States' first atomic egg was successfully tested in the desert of New Mexico. The power of this atomic egg was nearly 20 times greater than scientists originally estimated. times, the explosive yield of a TNT bomb is approximately 20,000-22,000 tons.

The scientists who witnessed its brilliance forgot their scientific language and raced to conjure up religious and mythological depictions in their minds. "The sky is full of strange lights, like the Holy Spirit showing off his power. Only 1,000 suns can compete with it!"

Brigadier General Thomas Farrell described the explosion in a report to the War Department. "The whole field was illuminated by a dazzling light many times more powerful than the noonday sun, a golden, crimson, violet, gray and blue light, with indescribable clarity and splendor. Illuminating every mountain peak and every valley... Thirty seconds after the explosion, there was first a wave of air, violently impacting people and objects, and almost immediately followed by a strong, long-lasting and terrifying roar, which seemed to be in the air. It heralds the end of the world..."

"Oh God!!" The sudden bright light made everyone crowded in front of the observation window take a step back. Although they all wore goggles, they still subconsciously narrowed their eyes. Without this kind of special goggles, looking directly at the light will cause blindness, and the vitreous body of the eye will turn into two pools of water.

Within the absolute destruction radius, objects affected by photothermal radiation will instantly vaporize and evaporate. Since thermal radiation lines propagate in straight lines, any opaque object can become an effective barrier to prevent its spread. When thermal radiation acts on an object, part of the energy will be reflected, part of it will be conducted and converted, and the rest will be absorbed. The rate of absorption depends on the properties and color of the object. A thin object can conduct most of the energy away, while light-colored objects can reflect a lot of radiation, and they will suffer less damage. The absorption of radiation causes the temperature to rise rapidly on the surface, such as wood, paper, fabric, etc., which will be ignited.

However, this destructive power will be completed in just an instant, but all the subsequent disasters have just begun.

What follows is a shock wave that even exceeds the speed of sound. After a nuclear weapon explodes, most buildings (except for fortifications with specially reinforced and impact-resistant structures) will be destroyed by the shock wave. The speed of the shock wave exceeds supersonic speed, and the range it affects will increase as the yield of nuclear weapons increases. In addition, two similar but different phenomena will also occur with the arrival of the shock wave, these two are static overpressure and dynamic pressure. The damage caused by most nuclear weapon air explosions is the combined effect of static overpressure and high winds generated by dynamic pressure. A long period of static overpressure pulls the building structure and makes it fragile. At this time, the strong wind generated by the dynamic pressure will come and destroy the building.

The most terrifying thing about the atomic egg is not the photothermal radiation or the shock wave, but the large area of ​​nuclear radiation formed after the explosion. Unlike the energy released by ordinary explosions, nuclear radiation causes greater damage. When an atomic egg explodes, the high temperature and pressure in the core area are enough to make people vaporize and disappear in an instant, without any time to cause pain. However, survivors who were lucky enough to escape the shock wave in the marginal area would be contaminated by radioactivity, causing continuous damage and pain.

So-called radioactive contamination means that everything in a certain area has become a radioactive source because it has been contaminated with nuclear radiation. When the survivors breathe air and drink water on the land after the nuclear explosion, they will be harmed by radiation. In these processes, a large amount of radioactive substances will accumulate in the respiratory tract and body of these survivors. When the dose reaches a certain level, the person will die of ulceration in a short period of time.

Of course, those with a small dose will not be spared. In the next few years, these survivors with less radiation will also die of various cancers and terminal illnesses.

According to statistics from the original time and space island country, only about 70,000 people died from the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima after the atomic egg attack, and more than 200,000 people died painfully due to nuclear radiation.

A huge mushroom cloud rose slowly in the center of the city in the distance, which was extremely magnificent and gave people a strong visual impact. Yannick stared at this terrible scene blankly. Although he had seen the explosion of nuclear bombs many times in various videos in his previous life, this time he saw it with his own eyes, and the shocking effect was dozens of times stronger than those videos.

"Oh my God!" Seeing the mushroom cloud rising into the sky and the city instantly engulfed in flames, many people in the observation room felt their legs go weak and sat on the ground. They finally believed what His Highness Yannick said, the terrible power comparable to the power of God!