But the blast effects it described were awesome enough. Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously.

They left the door open so they could watch the blast go off . They knew that they would have time to close the door because it would take 30 seconds for the shock wave to reach them. Kurchatov ...

It left some fearing a nuclear blast had occurred. The shockwave expanded outwards at supersonic speed, potentially damaging everything it came into contact with Orange smoke was sent pluming into ...