what hangs over all our heads
The photo sequence below shows a wood-frame house exposed to a nuclear blast at the Nevada Test Site. The test was Upshot-Knothole Annie, a 16 Kt tower shot, on 17 March 1953. The house is 1100 meters from ground zero.
The exposure to thermal radiation was 25 cal/cm^2, about one-quarter of that experienced at ground zero in Hiroshima.
The blast over pressure was 5 psi, and the blast wave created surface winds of 160 mph.
High Speed Photography of a House Being Nuked
This is what it's like afterwards
