Atomic Bomb
By: Stevenson Bassy, Armaan Smith and Kharis Hughes
What is an Atomic Bomb?
A bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.
Range of Bomb: The optimum height of burst to maximize this desired severe ground range destruction for a 1 kt bomb is 0.22 km; for 100 kt, 1 km; and for 10 Mt, 4.7 km.
Aerial view of an atomic bomb explosion
First British Atomic Bomb testing
Actual Bomb
Named: Fat Man
Detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
Detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
Kiyoshi Yoshikawa
A survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, displays the heavy scarring on his back
Primary: Flash burns
Marked thermal burns on soldier exposed within 1 km of ground zero.
Scorch, contact, and flame burns
Exposed skin of a woman seared by intense heat was blown away by fierce wave
Keloids
Keloid is an overgrowth of scar tissue on the wound surface of a thermal burn during the reparative stage.
The Wolverine - 'Atomic Bomb Clip'