area unit.The heat produced by matter being exposed to such high level of such powerful energy produces temperatures which are sixty to one hundred million degrees centigrade. This is about ten thousand times the surface temperature of the sun. Matter exposed to these temperatures is turned to plasma in a matter of one to three milliseconds. The heat also causes what is known as a flash incineration of all gases within a certain radius depending on the yield of the weapon. About ten milliseconds after detonation is when the largest group of destructive forces are released. The flash incineration take place in a sphere that extends with the weapon's detonation point being at the center, the size of the sphere depends on the yield of the weapon. The air underneath the sphere is denser so when after the flash incineration occurs the air underneath rushes in first to replace the incinerated air. This rush of air creates an updraft which pulls everything within a certain area upward. This upward motion is continued by the rising fireball. As the fireball, which is the superheated plasma form of the original nuclear fuels, rises it incinerates all air it touches which continues the original updraft phenomenon. The updraft created by this heat usually extends into the upper atmosphere, carrying irradiated particles with it. Once the gases cool they reform into ozone damaging nitric oxides. It is approximated that for each megaton yield of a weapon is releases some five thousand tons of nitric oxides, considering that modern nuclear weapons normally have a yield of one hundred megatons or greater, one modern nuclear weapon would release about one billion pounds of the gaseous form of nitric oxide. The amount of nitric oxide would be much greater than all of the internal combustion engines' output in one year. The atmospheric pressure change created by the flash incineration causes building outside the incineration range to implode. The PSI ...
