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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 1272758" data-attributes="member: 3003">I remeber seeing an article about the effects of a 10 MT bomb dropped on Manhattan. It would basically be leveled. Casualties would be in the millions. Thus your 50 MT would have done up Caprica city quite nicely I suspect. As for a nuke on the hull, well as pointed out earlier, a nuke explosion would not be nearly has harsh in a vacuum. The energy would not have a convenient medium availble to heat up for blast and heat effects. Almost everything would be radiation effects (not just ionizing radiation, but a real wicked burst across the whole EM spectrum which would vaporize things nearby. Most of the energy would be radiated into space rather than doing damage to the target (not to say that there should be a shortage of damage to the target). Though just for the sake of argument we have to remember that the U.S. did a fair number of above ground nuke tests in the Pacific (way back when) which tested the effects on warships. Not all of them sank immediately. In fact I think the battleships faired kind of well. Anything not really armored got scoured off, but inside the armored spaces were relatively OK. A Battlestar could be assumed to be armored as well (or better) than a battelship. Mind you, the yields were not nearly up to 50 MT (though we did pop a 10 MT bomb off above ground once- that was Mike- they named all the blasts) but I don't know if they had ships under that one. buzzard</blockquote>

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