Is there a protective suit/clothing that can withstand a nuclear explosion and protect one from any burns?
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Is there a protective suit/clothing that can withstand a nuclear explosion and protect one from any burns?
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No there isn’t any suit that could protect someone close to a nuclear explosion. There are ways to protect yourself if you are far enough away from a nuclear explosion, but we’re talking of many hundreds of metres away, several kilometres away in most cases. Otherwise you’d be blown to bits or vaporised.
Swiss bunkers are buried underground & entered by blast doors weighing about 1 tonne. The minimum standard of 15 P.S.I. means they could withstand a 1 megaton ground burst nuke, provided it was detonated 1.6 miles away. A human in a super heat/pressure proof suit would not survive at that range, outside the bunker. Even if some suit could withstand the pressure & heat, the human would be tossed into the air like King Kong throwing around a toy. Bear in mind such force would drag heavy machinery, such as locomotives,around.
Even a 1 kiloton nuke is still the equivalent of 1 million kilograms of TNT. There would not be anything left of somebody that was right in the immediate area from “even” a million kilos of TNT equivalence from a “small” nuke, wearing a bomb suit or not! Actually nukes give off more energy in the form of heat than chemical explosives. Fire bricks would melt too close to a nuclear explosion.Then there would be the radiation to consider.
Lead aprons are nowhere near thick enough to cut down the INR (initial nuclear radiation,) from a nuke. It takes around 1 inch of lead just to cut the Gamma & Neutron rays in half. It would be far too heavy for a human to wear & move in. Cutting radiation by just 50% would not be enough for a human to survive anyway. Non- starter I’m afraid.
A considerable distance away from a nuclear explosion, anything white, including clothes, reflects the heat flash better. In Hiroshima, people wearing clothes with a light/dark pattern were more badly burnt where the dark material was, so ended up with patterns burnt on their skin. Painting wooden buildings white has been proved to make them not burn so badly, compared to identical non- painted buildings, exposed to the same size of nuke at the same range. Hence the advice to whitewash house windows, in the UK booklet “ Protect & Survive”, should a nuclear attack be imminent.