The explosion will only take up a square mile or two. The shockwave, will spread and destroy for several more miles. The real destruction is the nuclear fallout. Tons of radioactive matieral being scatered by the wind can spread hundreds of miles.
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∙ 13y agoThe distance of damage caused by a nuclear missile depends on various factors such as the type and yield of the warhead, altitude of detonation, and weather conditions. However, a single nuclear missile has the potential to cause damage and casualties in a radius of several miles or more from the point of impact.
around 36 miles from it
The fastest missile is the Russian-made Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 27 (over 20,000 mph). This missile is designed to travel at hypersonic speeds, making it extremely difficult to intercept by conventional missile defense systems.
Hurricanes produce damage over an area hundreds of miles wide and last for days. Tornados cause damage in relatively small areas and last for minutes. ,
Volcanoes can cause damage through lava flows, ashfall, pyroclastic flows, lahars (mudflows), and volcanic gases. These hazards can lead to destruction of infrastructure, loss of life, and long-term environmental impacts on agriculture and ecosystems.
A cyclone. Cyclones cover areas hundred of miles wide. Tornadoes more than a mile wide are rare.
It depends on the size of the Nuclear device, anywhere from 5 square miles and up
About 4,000 miles which is the range of NK's nuclear missile.
An intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is a long-range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery, that is, delivering one or more nuclear warheads.Source: Wikipedia.
Primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) can reach a minimum of 3,400 miles (5500 km).
A nuclear missile can travel at speeds of more than 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 km/h). These missiles are designed to reach their targets as quickly as possible to minimize the chances of interception.
A missile with a range of 3500+ miles is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The SS-4 is a Russian medium range ballistic missile with capacity to carry a nuclear payload 1630 kg or warhead of 1-1.3 MT or 2-2.3 MT.The missile can travel upto 2000 k.m (1234 miles) to hit soft targets like cities and military bases.It was deployed by the Russians in the Cuban missile crisis.
Russia and the United States were "Cold War" enemies. Soviet Russia supplied nuclear missiles to Cuba. Cuba is only 90 miles from the coast of the United States. Russia's reasons for supplying Cuba with nuclear capability... (You Decide)
around 36 miles from it
A gravity dropped nuclear bomb could fall several tens of thousands of feet from bomber to detonation. A ballistic missile's warhead could travel tens of thousands of miles from launch site to detonation.
At least once, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962, the US and the Soviet Union seemed on the brink of war. The conflict escalated over nuclear missiles the Russians were putting in Castro's Cuba, only 90 miles from US soil.
The Cuban missile crisis.After Fidel Castro led a successful revolt to sieze power in Cuba in 1959 he was courted and mentored buy the Soviet Union, who then secretly installed armed rocket silo's in Cuba Pointed at the USA from less than 100 miles away. It did not take the US, under J F Kennedy, to the discover them. The Soviets were told to remove them or else. The world waited with bated breath. Then the Soviets removed them.