Whats the range of the explosion of a nuclear bomb?

Question

in terms of miles or km whats the range of damage that a nuclear bomb can do?

my best guess since i do not know would be around 80-90 miles of damage

Answer 1

34000.898 mile away

Answer 2

like the first guy said u can survive the A bomb but if u look at it ur blind. and if u get past that then u will die later in life from radiation. in the 50's all those soldiers who were there to witness the blast they all died.  

Answer 3

A concrete structure needs to be within 50 foot of the blast center to be opened up and destroyed. Greater than 50 feet and concrete buildings are mostly left alone.

Wood buildings get blown down and burned up to about 200 feet.

The shock wave will hit and move things around out to about 500 feet.

Answer 4

5 to 10 miles for an H-Bomb, 1 to 5 miles for A-Bomb (this is for brick buildings).  If you are outside (in a slit trench), you can survive a small A-Bomb 1KM away (they did this in the 50's with U.S. soldiers).  If you are out in the open you would want to be 5 miles or more away from an A-Bomb and 15 miles or more from an H-Bomb (and not look directly at the blast out much farther since it can be blinding)

Answer 5

The area of death and destruction are a variable determined by several factors including the soil type.

Dial a Yield has been around for a long time. So a particular warheads capabilities can vary as well depending on the mission.

The 2 big factors are yield and altitude followed by soil type and wind.

The small tactical artillery rounds held in NATO bunkers during the Cold War could take out a 1.7 mile radius at low yield. The hope was to take out an entire battalion of armor. They could crank them up in yield. A cannon cocker told us that if that was done the rounds had to fired by volunteers sent 25 miles beyond the formation. They could shoot it 17 miles, you would need to look up the 105 tracked howitzer for the exact distance, putting them several miles inside radius of certain death.

SSG US Army 73-82

Spent 27 months about 1000 meters from one of those bunkers. Check out the last link for some comments from the guy's that would have used them.