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  • Nuclear bombs work by changing one substance into another or by combining two substances into a single substance. The energy released is related to Einstein's equation E=MC2. As all the matter is already present in the bomb, the same result would occur in outer space as occurs on the earth, BIG BOOM.
  • nuclear bombs occur every day and every second somewhere in space
  • Not a matter of "if", NOYFB, it has happened often. Many nuclear tests have been "done" in space, by both the USA and the former Soviet Union. Slothmister is correct. But, in space, there is no other element for the "bomb" to react with, so, it is a "harmless" explosion. And no nuclear "fallout", because there was no other element around to create any debris. And the question arises,...if they know the damned thing works,..why do they have to keep "testing it"? I don't know the answer to my own question, but I have my suspicions, and it has nothing to do with "national defense'....
  • lots of light and energy, but no sound (wont travel in a vacuum)
  • hey i got a question for you!(very tricky) what would happen if you stopped time (only you could move) and jumped? what would happen?would we walk on air?because if you stopped time you stop gravity.
  • I agree with Slothmeister on this one, but I would add that it would look different in space because the intense ball of light would spread out more rapidly in all directions, and there wouldn't be a "mushroom cloud" because there is no definition of "up" in outer space. The explosion would be roughly spherical, and would probably produce some pretty intense x-rays if it were a thermonuclear weapon. I wouldn't want to be within 10,000km of it if I were in orbit in a shuttle, space station, etc.
  • Then all the aliens would get cancer.
  • If it was near the earth the radioactive fallout would probably kill a lot of life on earth. If it was in empty space it would just do what energy does, disipate.
  • I am sorry but almost all of these conclusions are incorrect. If you detonate a nuclear device in outer space, in a complete vacuum, then there will be heat a small amount of light as the plutonium and uranium fissions (or in the case of an H bomb, fusions together,) and melts. There will be a large electro magnetic pulse which would be the only real effect on the earth if it were detonated in G.E.O. or below. Radioactive Fallout is caused by the dust thrown up by a nuclear explosion being irradiated and activated by the initial burst of radiation from the device. There would be only a very small amount of radioactive debris created by the blast which would burn up into insignificant proportions upon re-entry (if any of it actually did fall to earth). There would be no explosion as there is no oxygen to ignite. The E=MC2 'proof' by slothmister shows a complete lack of understanding of the principles of nuclear physics. The ignition of the atmosphere actually will retard the amount of heat (energy) that is expelled in a detonation on earth. In space the exact same amount of energy is released but none is 'wasted' on igniting the air. Just more of it is converted into melting the bomb, the EMP, the heat released etc.
  • the only thing a nuke going off in space is good for is the EMP it would produce

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