Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

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 an atomic egg, let alone a grenade. And now that he was going to detonate such a devastating 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 about 20,000-22,000 tons.

The scientists who witnessed its brilliance forgot their scientific language and scrambled to conjure religious and mythological depictions in their minds. "The sky is full of strange lights, just like the Holy Spirit showing off its 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, air waves rushed first, 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 propagates 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 bursts 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 is 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.

The so-called radioactive contamination means that everything in a certain area becomes a radioactive source because it is contaminated with nuclear radiation materials. When survivors breathe air and drink water in the land after the nuclear explosion, they will be harmed by radioactivity. During these processes, a large amount of radioactive material will accumulate in the respiratory tract and body of these survivors. When the dose reaches a certain level, the person's body will fester and die within a short period of time.

Of course, those with minimal doses will not be spared. In the next few years, these survivors who are less exposed to radiation will also die of various terminal cancers.

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

A huge mushroom cloud slowly rises in the center of the city in the distance. It is extremely majestic and gives people a strong visual impact. Yannick stared blankly at this horrific scene. Although the explosion of nuclear bombs had been seen many times in various videos in his previous life, seeing it with his own eyes this time was dozens of times more shocking than those videos. times.

"Oh my God!" Seeing the mushroom cloud that shot straight into the sky and the city that was instantly engulfed in flames, many people in the observation room had their legs weak and sat on the ground. They now finally believe what His Highness Yannick said about the terrifying power comparable to the power of God!

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