What would the effects me of a nuclear bomb on the peak of Mount Everest?

Question

What would happen?

The amount of ionizing radiation depends on air, rocks, and water etc. But

an altitude THAT high would be so different. Anyone with such a imaginative mind please say something :P.

Answer 1

On 30 October 1961 the Soviet Union tested the “Tsar Bomba”, a hydrogen bomb which had a blast yield of 50 megatons of TNT, the largest and most powerful ever detonated.  The resulting mushroom cloud was about 60 km (37 miles) high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 30 to 40 km (18 to 25 miles) wide.  The heat from the explosion would have caused third degree burns 100 km (62 miles) from ground zero and atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km (621 miles) away.  The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth and was about 5 to 5.25 on the Richter scale.

So the answer to your question is it depends on the size of the bomb. Incidentally, the original design of Tsar Bomba was for a yield of 100 megatons, but it was scaled down as there were worries about the amount of nuclear fallout that would result.

Answer 2

Strangely enough, it will be the snow/ice melting in an instant that will produce the most damages.  At foot of the mountain there will flooding of catastrophic proportions

Of course, the nuclear fall-outs will be spread across the continent, mostly in China, Nepal and Tibet.

The top  of the Everest will be chopped and the highest mountain will be the K2.

Answer 3

Too many variables to give an intelligent answer.

Answer 4

Mt Everest wouldn't the the tallest mountain anymore.

Oh btw I don't buy Mathjakk's concern for flooding; snow & ice would be vaporized, not melt.