Due to the international rush for world power, many countries have now joined the nuclear race. Being able to expand for several miles after detonation, nuclear bomb leaves nothing but ruins and destruction behind. According to Nuclear Darkness, when a nuclear bomb is detonated, the large amount of energy released can reach temperatures as hot as the core of the sun. Exceeding speeds close to 500 miles per hour from ground zero up to about 1.2 km radius.
Measured in kilotons, each explosion consists of three majors components known as the blast wave, thermal radiation, & nuclear radiation. In order to calculate the nuclear bomb magnitude of destruction, time and distance are a huge part of that equation. This is due to the radioactive cloud that falls & expands around ground zero, creating a radioactive deadly fallout with long-term effects.