The initiation hight of such bombs ( limited by high the delivery aircraft could fly ) would probable get graded as a'ground burst '.
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Detonation of the Hound Dog's W28 warhead could be programmed to occur on impact ( Ground burst ) or air burst at a preset altitude.
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A relatively low yield may be able to produce seismic forces beyond those of an air burst or even ground burst of a weapon with twice its yield.
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The B61 can be set for airburst, ground burst, or laydown detonation, and can be released at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes as low as.
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An example is the higher-yield B61-11's role of attacking underground bunkers that need a ground burst to create a crater and destroy it through the shockwave.
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This is due in part to neutron activation of ground soil and greater amounts of soil being sucked into the nuclear fireball in a ground burst than in a high air burst.
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For ground bursts, the elements of concern are aluminium-28, silicon-31, sodium-24, manganese-56, iron-59, and cobalt-60.
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To destroy New York as a working community so that it will fall apart without massive outside help is only a few nukes, especially if this includes ground bursts with massive fallout.
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The ground bursts open, releasing the mummified remains of the Celtic warrior who had been used to seal away the Undying King by the original druids, and the warrior quickly crumbles to dust.
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:: : : : You are all wrong, if you are talking about, as I suspect, pictures of early " ground burst " tests which sometimes show bright more less diagonal lines.
