Mushrooms and Nukes

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Ok this is a bit of a spoiler so if you haven't completed BOTH Fallout 1 and 2 please don't read the below, (I hope that's clear enough).

Ok when the Vault Dweller (Player Character) destroys the cathedral it sets off a mushroom cloud because either
A)You detonated the nuke
OR
B) The master set it off when you kill him

so yet another nuke detonates. And then again in Fallout 2 when you blow the (Probably) Nuclear reactor that sets off yet another nuclear exploision. I read in a post a while back that thios would be VERY careless of a character i mena could you imagine me and my grandad both setting off nuclear exploisions in nearly the same place. Althopugh you could argue that they weren't nuclear because otherwise your character would be in the radius of the blast. Would these nukes damage the already nuclear damaged planet?
 
The Boneyard is probably screwed but it was anyway.
But they say the South is already screwed so I doubt it matters.

M
 
I've never tried it, but can't you blow up the Gecko Nuclear Reactor as an alternative to finding the hydrothingy?
 
About Nuclear Explosions:

>Ok this is a bit of
>a spoiler so if you
>haven't completed BOTH Fallout 1
>and 2 please don't read
>the below, (I hope that's
>clear enough).
>
>Ok when the Vault Dweller (Player
>Character) destroys the cathedral it
>sets off a mushroom cloud
>because either
>A)You detonated the nuke
>OR
>B) The master set it off
>when you kill him
>
>so yet another nuke detonates. And
>then again in Fallout 2
>when you blow the (Probably)
>Nuclear reactor that sets off
>yet another nuclear exploision. I
>read in a post a
>while back that thios would
>be VERY careless of a
>character i mena could you
>imagine me and my grandad
>both setting off nuclear exploisions
>in nearly the same place.
>Althopugh you could argue that
>they weren't nuclear because otherwise
>your character would be in
>the radius of the blast.
>Would these nukes damage the
>already nuclear damaged planet?


You have an interesting question fang... to answer it I have decided to employ my knowledge on Nuclear physics...

The bombs that are portrayed look like old fashioned atomic bombs... The way these atomic bombs work is by creating a critical mass of Uranium, or Plutonium depending on the bomb. A critical mass is a mass of something required to create a nuclear reaction. To create a critical mass it shoots two almost critical masses of Uranium (or Plutonium depending on the bomb) at eachother at extremely high speeds. At the moment of collision between the masses, you suddenly get a critical mass. This causes a nuclear reaction, it will split a Uranium(or Plutonium) atom into several smaller elements plus a nuetron or two depending on the bomb construction. These nuetrons will go flying at other nearby heavy atoms and split them, and the chain reaction will grow...

The energy released is awsome, although small in todays weapon standards...

If say another nuclear weapon were in the area of this blast... It would melt it, or it would catch the shockwave and go flying in a million pieces... Although the Uranium in the other bomb may be caused to split also depending in where it is, but it probably wont be close enough to the blast point...

So although you may expect the other nuclear bomb to explode, it would simply melt into a block of slag and do no good...

One of the techniques thuoght up during the cold war for fending off a missile attack was to detonate a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere and vapourize incoming nukes... however further research into such an action was banned.

and No this wouldnt particularly damage the planet much more... a single nuclear explosion doesnt do much... the world was ended by the combined force of many at once...
 
Also

Also, the melt down of a nuclear reactor doesn't lead to a nuclear explosion... (That would be the nice way to die.)

Its actually what it sounds like... The heat of an out of control reaction pretty much melts the reactor and other things around it and leads to an explosion in the building which spews radioactive material everyhwere.(like in chernobyl)
 
Well with the right amount of explosves c4 TNT ect.. you will get the mushroom cloud so it might not of been a nuke.
Ever watch some of the old war movies where the fuil depot blows up? black mushroom cloud. :)


<Warring Warring bad spellign detected>
 
Well, the mushroom cloud is just caused by the way particles of debris cool and begin to fall back down to earth. If you got any explosion hot enough, it would cause a mushroom cloud.
 
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