Following the blast training, participants showed increased ... Even shoulder-fired rockets, which send shock waves scarily ...

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.

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

Blast overpressure occurs when a weapon is fired and the explosion creates an invisible high-pressure shock wave that travels through the body — including the brain. Scientists have now found ...

A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a ... it can shatter your liver and it can provide this blast effect,” said Joseph Sakran, a gunshot survivor who advocates ...