With regards to the fate of cities, what degree of flammability would one assume for a modern US urban area? Will the inner concrete core burn less than industrial areas or the suburbs? Certainly a modern city wouldn't burn in the same way that Hiroshima did - or would it? The level of flammability would be another variable to be conside…
With regards to the fate of cities, what degree of flammability would one assume for a modern US urban area? Will the inner concrete core burn less than industrial areas or the suburbs? Certainly a modern city wouldn't burn in the same way that Hiroshima did - or would it? The level of flammability would be another variable to be considered in assigning levels of damage to urban areas. Also, if one subscribes to the nuclear winter theory urban burning will have a deep and dramatic impact within the time frame of the the trek across the US and afterwards.
I keep remembering the footage of the test house exposed to a surface nuclear burst in Nevada. You see the structure being to burn under the glare of the heat of the fireball , then the blast wave essentially wrecks the house but stops the burning (or so it seems).
With regards to the fate of cities, what degree of flammability would one assume for a modern US urban area? Will the inner concrete core burn less than industrial areas or the suburbs? Certainly a modern city wouldn't burn in the same way that Hiroshima did - or would it? The level of flammability would be another variable to be considered in assigning levels of damage to urban areas. Also, if one subscribes to the nuclear winter theory urban burning will have a deep and dramatic impact within the time frame of the the trek across the US and afterwards.
I keep remembering the footage of the test house exposed to a surface nuclear burst in Nevada. You see the structure being to burn under the glare of the heat of the fireball , then the blast wave essentially wrecks the house but stops the burning (or so it seems).