What would happened if a nuclear weapon is detonated

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that uses a nuclear reaction. This explosion is far more potent than traditional explosives. When a nuclear weapon explodes, four types of energy are released: a blast wave, blinding light, heat, and radiation. Nuclear weapons can be deployed as bombs or missiles. An enormous fireball is formed when a nuclear weapon explodes. Everything inside this fireball vaporizes and ascends. This results in the formation of a mushroom-shaped cloud. The material in the cloud cools to the size of dust and falls back to Earth as fallout. The wind can carry fallout and end up miles away from the explosion site. Fallout is radioactive and can contaminate anything it comes into contact with.Nuclear Weapon

The short term effects and the long term effects

The fireball from a nuclear explosion reaches its most significant magnitude in around 10 seconds. Tremendous energy is released during a nuclear detonation through blasts, heat, and radiation. A massive shockwave travels hundreds of kilometers per hour. The explosion kills those nearby and causes lung injuries, ear damage, and internal bleeding further away. In addition, individuals are injured due to collapsing buildings and flying objects. Thermal radiation is so powerful that it vaporizes practically anything near ground zero. The intense heat causes severe burns and sparks fires across a vast area, resulting in a massive firestorm. Those in underground bunkers risk dying due to a lack of oxygen and carbon monoxide poisoning.

Nuclear weapons have long-term health consequences, including cancer and genetic damage, and their use in atmospheric testing has caused grave environmental damage. Scientists project that 2.4 million people worldwide will eventually die from cancers due to these tests, and the use of less than one percent of the nuclear weapons in the world could disrupt global climate and threaten as many as two billion people with starvation in a nuclear famine. In addition, a nuclear war could cause a nuclear winter, which would destroy the fragile ecosystem, and could also cause a refugee crisis that is orders of magnitude larger than any we have ever experienced.What happens if nuclear weapons are used?

The effects of nuclear weapons on the economy

Since World War II, the Department of Defense has been the vehicle for delivering pork-barrel funds to various regions. It has created an inertia challenging to curtail nuking weapons programs after their useful life has expired. Nuclear weapons projects provide infrastructure and facilities, have a lower multiplier, and provide less economic activity for the United States in general. For example, the Department of Energy advertised a sub-critical nuclear test to cost from $15 to $20 million a shot. Still, this month’s independent study shows that these tests are more reasonably priced at $45 to $95 million apiece. At $4.5 billion a year, the Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship program is larded with vast amounts of money spent on maintaining employment levels at the national laboratories. Defense economists have recognized that true national strength is based on the flexibility and diversity of the economy. Excessive spending should be avoided in the future to ensure the economic stability of the US.THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS