What is nuking the fridge?

What is nuking the fridge?

To “nuke the fridge” means to exhaust a Hollywood franchise with disappointing sequels. It was coined after a ludicrous scene in the latest Indiana Jones installment in which the hero climbs into a refrigerator and somehow survives a nuclear explosion.

What would happen if a nuke detonated underwater?

At the maximum diameter of the first oscillation, a very large nuclear bomb exploded in very deep water creates a bubble about a half-mile (800 m) wide in about one second and then contracts, which also takes about a second. Blast bubbles from deep nuclear explosions have slightly longer oscillations than shallow ones.

Would a lead lined fridge protect you from a nuclear blast?

Finally a lead-lined refrigerator would provide some protection from the radiation effects of a nuclear explosion, but not as good protection as being underground. The reason has to do with the total attenuation of the material.

What if a nuke went off in the Mariana Trench?

It is called the MARIANA trench. If you dropped a nuclear weapon into the trench it would fall to the bottom and rest there. Gradually over time it would decay and rust and the nuclear material would leak out in small amounts and dissipate into the ocean.

Can nukes explode in space?

If a nuclear weapon is exploded in a vacuum-i. e., in space-the complexion of weapon effects changes drastically: First, in the absence of an atmosphere, blast disappears completely. With such weapons the lethal radii (from nuclear radiation) in space may be of the order of hundreds of miles.

Would a nuke destroy a mountain?

That depends on the size of the nuclear bomb, and the size of the mountain. The answer is “yes”, for a given value of yes. For most mountains and most bombs, it would take multiple bombs to get the job done. But a single large bomb could destroy a small mountain.

How big can nukes get?

Nuclear bombs have had yields between 10 tons TNT (the W54) and 50 megatons for the Tsar Bomba (see TNT equivalent). A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can release energy equal to more than 1.2 million tons of TNT (5.0 PJ).

How much can 1 nuke destroy?

The volume the weapon’s energy spreads into varies as the cube of the distance, but the destroyed area varies at the square of the distance. Thus 1 bomb with a yield of 1 megaton would destroy 80 square miles. While 8 bombs, each with a yield of 125 kilotons, would destroy 160 square miles.