From her training and study, Lieutenant Arthur imprinted visuals in her mind of the nuclear explosion that she would unleash on her fellow humans, releasing several forms of penetrating radiation. She saw the air, the rocks, the soil on the ground, the water, and the human beings rapidly heating to an equilibrium temperature, to the same temperature as the nuke’s matter, vaporizing in rapid expansion.
Powerful kinetic energy that created killer shock waves. In an airburst near sea level, she visualized the blast as it created a shock wave that expanded spherically from the center. She saw the intense thermal radiation at the hypocenter create a nuclear fireball of over one million degrees Fahrenheit, and she knew that if the burst were at a high altitude where the air density was low, ion
