My last two posts about the Divine Strake shot were titled:A New Mushroom Cloud at the NTS and New Mushroom Cloud II. Well, after thinking about it, I doubt if the Strake shot will produce a real, bonafide mushroom cloud, the kind that begins with a fireball encircled by a spinning torus of debris shooting up into the sky (”ballistic rise”) while below on the ground is a churning duststorm hundreds of feet deep. And as for a stem reaching 30 or 40 thousand feet into the sky. . .? Well, sorry. There probably won’t be one of those either. Why? The detonation will not be hot enough, and the fireball–if there is one—won’t last long enough to impersonate even a tiny fission blast.
That’s not to say that there won’t be dust particles thrust hundreds of feet into the air—where they might catch the currents heading northeast toward Boston and Hartford.
But probably no mushroom cloud.
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