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when neutron-activated. By detonating them at or near the surface instead, in a ground burst, the ground will be vaporized, become radioactive, and when

of its energy into the ground, compared to a surface burst or air burst explosion at or above the surface, and so can destroy an underground target using

air burst produces a relatively small amount of the highly radioactive heavy metal components of the device itself. In case of water surface bursts, the

for air and surface bursts. Thus, the fireball radius for a surface burst is 13 percent larger than that indicated and for an air burst, 13 percent smaller'"

neutrons beyond their lethal blast range when detonated as a surface burst or low altitude air burst and so are not classified as neutron bombs, thus limiting

the explosion occurred. The explosion, or burst, can be air, surface, subsurface, or seawater. An air burst will produce less fallout than a comparable

trigger two types of air-bursts, one being a near surface burst to combat standing targets and the other being a higher proximity burst downward onto prone

for air and surface bursts. Thus, the fireball radius for a surface burst is 13 percent larger than that indicated and for an air burst, 13 percent smaller

following a surface burst forms, as opposed to the comparatively dilute global fallout created when nuclear weapons are fuzed in air burst mode. Altfeld

concrete building, or otherwise detonated at the surface. In the context of a nuclear weapon, a ground burst is a detonation on the ground, in shallow water