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Originally Posted by pavulon
Post 46 also illustrates how much faster energy moves through the ground than though air.
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Many at work are spinning their slide rules (really - get your copy of Glasstone out!) doing maths to figure out the yield - and watching these movies frame-by-frame to get the shock speed, which is a little faster than the speed of sound.
It's a rare thing to get such a view into a giant boom. Fascinating but also a tragic loss of life and damage to their economy.
It's also a sobering look into what a "limited" tactical nucular exchange would be.