[ScaleneTriangle]

I don't know about nukes, but large conventional bombs have an unintuitive survival distance profile. Something like <10 units away, you die, 10-20 units away, you can survive, 20-30 units away you die, >30 units away you survive.

[cammikebrown]

Why is that?

[ScaleneTriangle]

It has something to do with the pressure wave and how it changes with distance, since I posted that comment I've been looking for more information but I don't know the right terms.

[ScaleneTriangle]

I'm trying to find more information, I know they're was at least one study of a Canadian soldier who survived an explosion inside the radius that he should have died due to the pressure wave.

[Ecco]

Why?

[throwmeariver1]

Thermal and air blast a lot of people die because of glas shrapnel from bombs when they look at the bombs at their windows.

[gnulinux]

Is this due to shrapnel?