Aurora Oddities - Nuke repellent wall paint and 3d transnewtonium printers

[ArcWolf]

In any case, it's not the Shells/projectiles that explode with the magazine, but the propellent. In the case of Aroura, that would be the missiles fuel, which lets be real, it's easy to get missiles to 30,000 km/s, which is 10%C. If they have enough propellent to do that, they more then have enough propellent to vaporize the ship carrying them with out the nukes going off.

[Andrew]

This is an interesting and well researched video on the subject of exploding Hood's he has another one on exploding Arizona's

It is one of those interesting things it definetly blew up but why is hard to tell with so little remaining evidence

[Droll]

This is an interesting and well researched video on the subject of exploding Hood's he has another one on exploding Arizona's

It is one of those interesting things it definetly blew up but why is hard to tell with so little remaining evidence

That's actually the video that I had watched and was somewhat referencing. I think the general thing that some people have already said in this thread is that the warheads themselves seldom explode but heat from fires can cause propellant and such to cook off, which is where the explosions happen, especially since the lack of easy escape routes for the heat can cause some insane pressure buildup.

[ArcWolf]

This is an interesting and well researched video on the subject of exploding Hood's he has another one on exploding Arizona's

It is one of those interesting things it definetly blew up but why is hard to tell with so little remaining evidence

Drachinifel, a great channel btw, has a good video on the hood (among many many other great videos).

https://youtu.be/CLPeC7LRqIY

Anyways, i believe the prevailing theory is still a flash fire in the secondary powder magazine that spread due to flash doors being left open.

[Vivalas]

Nuclear missiles are set off by conventional explosives, but that doesn't mean that conventional explosions set of nukes. It has to be detonated in a very precise way to ensure prompt criticality without destroying the nuclear warhead in the process. Basically, if it's detonated in any way other than the precise way it's meant to be detonated, at worse you get a very nasty dirty bomb, but that's with all external forces somehow pushing the warhead inwards.

Also, a big challenge in early nuclear weapon design was ensuring that every single detonator went off at the same time. It's such a precise reaction that the small distance across the core is enough to introduce enough lag that you don't get your fun explosion. That's generally where the whole "you can't blow up nukes with bombs" thing comes from. It's a whole science just to get the things to detonate in the first place, let alone throwing explosives at one and hoping for the best.