no the thermal pulse effect is superficial meaning only the external outer layer will be cooked and stuff near the plasma ball will be vaporized or overcooked
Putting that into nukemap https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ with a 0.3 KT explosion (like the beruit accident) we get a radius of roughly a city block.
Unfortunately, the 160 cal/cm² ring is between the 200psi and 20psi rings, so the pizza would be perfectly cooked, but also blown to pieces.
Fortunately, the radiation and the pressure wave use different formulas. So if you detonate a 50 megaton bomb (enough to destroy chicago) you would destroy the city, but only lightly damage the suburbs, and will have a ring about 15 miles out of perfectly cooked pizzas, assuming the pizzas were stored sideways with the toppings facing the epicenter.
Unfortunately, the 20psi ring has about 30 seconds between the pizza being fully cooked and the 500mph winds from the blast wave destroying the building, the refrigerator, and most likely blowing off the plastic covering of the pizza.
So unless you can eat a medium pizza within 30 seconds of cooking it, including removing the box and plastic wrapper, this won't be a successful endeavor. EDIT: Since this got some coverage, let me be clear on the problem: A nuclear explosion will generate a blast wave as well as a radiation pulse. The radiation pulse will travel at the speed of light, and the blast wave at the speed of sound. So the question is not "will the radiation pulse cook the pizza?", the question is "Will the radiation pulse outrun the blast wave". So far for all possible sized bombs, the blast wave is within 30 seconds of the radiation pulse. So even if the pizza was cooked, you could not eat a medium pizza with enough time to survive the blast wave.
Also whoever called reddit suicide watch on me, I think you completely misunderstood the point of this post. I have no intention of dying by thermobaric pizza.
MilkyChast on August 30th, 2020 at 16:54 UTC »
I would be taking notes
iyad-lc on August 30th, 2020 at 16:57 UTC »
no the thermal pulse effect is superficial meaning only the external outer layer will be cooked and stuff near the plasma ball will be vaporized or overcooked
coranos2 on August 30th, 2020 at 18:51 UTC »
cribbing from the last time this was posted.
It takes 250 degrees Celsius to cook a pizza
Which is 475,000 joules
1 joule is 0.239 calories
So that's 113,000 calories to cook a pizza.
The average medium pizza is 12 inches.
So it's 113,000 cal per π*15 cm, or 160 cal/cm².
Putting that into nukemap https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ with a 0.3 KT explosion (like the beruit accident) we get a radius of roughly a city block.
Unfortunately, the 160 cal/cm² ring is between the 200psi and 20psi rings, so the pizza would be perfectly cooked, but also blown to pieces.
Fortunately, the radiation and the pressure wave use different formulas. So if you detonate a 50 megaton bomb (enough to destroy chicago) you would destroy the city, but only lightly damage the suburbs, and will have a ring about 15 miles out of perfectly cooked pizzas, assuming the pizzas were stored sideways with the toppings facing the epicenter.
Unfortunately, the 20psi ring has about 30 seconds between the pizza being fully cooked and the 500mph winds from the blast wave destroying the building, the refrigerator, and most likely blowing off the plastic covering of the pizza.
So unless you can eat a medium pizza within 30 seconds of cooking it, including removing the box and plastic wrapper, this won't be a successful endeavor. EDIT: Since this got some coverage, let me be clear on the problem: A nuclear explosion will generate a blast wave as well as a radiation pulse. The radiation pulse will travel at the speed of light, and the blast wave at the speed of sound. So the question is not "will the radiation pulse cook the pizza?", the question is "Will the radiation pulse outrun the blast wave". So far for all possible sized bombs, the blast wave is within 30 seconds of the radiation pulse. So even if the pizza was cooked, you could not eat a medium pizza with enough time to survive the blast wave.
Also whoever called reddit suicide watch on me, I think you completely misunderstood the point of this post. I have no intention of dying by thermobaric pizza.