groundburst

A groundburst creates enormous overpressure and ground shock, ideal for destroying a hardened target.

Superiority Complex 2007

A groundburst creates enormous overpressure and ground shock, ideal for destroying a hardened target.

Superiority Complex 2007

The climax, a man who is going to explode is carried off into the air by his brother… did anybody bother to compare the effects of a groundburst with an airburst nuclear explosion?

‘A writer friend of mine visited Ground Zero not long afterwards and said he expected to see the alien monster climb out of the pit’ « Gerry Canavan 2008

In that celebrated essay, he was rehearsing the idea of killing his wife and children to spare them the horror of a nuclear groundburst.

BRAVO TEV 2007

So, a small, dirty groundburst causing lots of broken glass in the coastal area would wreck the tourist trade, port facilities, and leave lots and lots of contamination.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Nor does your position account for the effects of a large number of nukes 1) targeted at population centers, 2) set for groundburst in a fashion to do as much damage as possible, 3) happening in a massive number of locations, 4) all at once.

Surprising isn\’t it | My[confined]Space 2009