nuclear bunker buster

A nuclear bunker buster, also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers or other below-ground facilities. An underground explosion releases a larger fraction of its energy into the ground, compared to a surface burst or air burst explosion at or above the surface, and so can destroy an underground target using a lower explosive yield. This in turn could lead to a reduced amount of radioactive fallout. However, it is unlikely that the explosion would be completely contained underground. As a result, significant amounts of rock and soil would be rendered radioactive and lofted as dust or vapor into the atmosphere, generating significant fallout.

MainWikipediaGalleryBibliographyTableSearch

Wikidata
EPW; Earth Penetrating Weapons
bunker buster, aerial bomb, 
bunker buster, weapon type, 

​

Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,

Frameless

대한민국 김준형 핵벙커전문가

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		대한민국 김준형 핵벙커전문가		Commons