Ok.. so what would be the minimum distance for a cube of volume 1cm^3 in a vacuum to be near such a nuke to NOT be vaporized and actually gain acceleration due to that? Much like that Project Orion, which planned to use nukes to propel a spacecraft to relativistic speeds?
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Hi all, a 15 year old noob here. I want to calculate how much FORCE in NEWTONS would be delivered by a 100 kiloton nuke on an object of area around 2cm^2 from a distance of about 5 meters. This might sound like a stupid question, but all the answers about nukes are its POWER in joules, not...