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hydrophones suspended from cables tethered to the ocean floor. They are positioned at a depth located within the SOFAR in order to effectively gather readings. Each hydrophone records 250 samples per second, while the tethering cable supplies power and carries information to the shore. This information is converted to a usable form and transmitted via secure satellite link to other facilities for analysis. T-phase monitoring stations record seismic signals generate from sound waves that have coupled with the ocean floor or shoreline. T-phase stations are generally located on steep-sloped islands in order to gather the cleanest possible seismic readings. Like hydrophone stations, this information is sent to the shore and transmitted via satellite link for further analysis. Hydrophone stations have the benefit of gathering readings directly from the SOFAR, but are generally more expensive to implement than T-phase stations. Hydroacoustic stations monitor frequencies from 1 to 100 Hertz to determine if an underwater detonation has occurred. If a potential detonation has been identified by one or more stations, the gathered signals will contain a high bandwidth with the frequency spectrum indicating an underwater cavity at the source.
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There are two different types of hydroacoustic stations currently used in the IMS network; 6 hydrophone monitoring stations and 5 T-phase stations. These 11 stations are primarily located in the southern hemisphere, which is primarily ocean. Hydrophone monitoring stations consist of an array of three
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Despite being in direct contact with a nuclear explosion fireball, the water in the expanding bubble wall does not boil; the pressure inside the bubble exceeds (by far) the vapor pressure of water. The water touching the blast can only boil during bubble contraction. This boiling is like evaporation,
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At the maximum diameter of the first oscillation, a very large nuclear bomb exploded in very deep water creates a bubble about a half-mile (800 m) wide in about one second and then contracts, which also takes about a second. Blast bubbles from deep nuclear explosions have slightly longer oscillations
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Since water is not readily compressible, moving this much of it out of the way so quickly absorbs a massive amount of energy—all of which comes from the pressure inside the expanding bubble. Water pressure outside the bubble soon causes it to collapse back into a small sphere and rebound, expanding
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to produce a short-lived nitrogen-16. In any typical scenario, the probability of such multiple captures in significant numbers in the short time of active nuclear reactions around a bomb is very low. They are somewhat greater when the water is continuously irradiated, as in the closed-loop primary
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are used to monitor the change in water pressure as sound waves propagate through the world's oceans. Sound travels through 20 Â°C water at approximately 1482 meters per second, compared to the 332 m/s speed of sound through air. In the world's oceans, sound travels most efficiently at a
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moved outward from the center. The first wave was about 94 ft (29 m) high at 1,000 ft (300 m) from the center. Other waves followed, and at further distances some of these were higher than the first wave. For example, at 22,000 ft (6,700 m) from the center, the ninth
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station was built off the west coast of Canada. When the CTBT was adopted, 8 more hydroacoustic stations were constructed to create a comprehensive network capable of identifying underwater nuclear detonations anywhere in the world. These 11 hydroacoustic stations, in addition to 326 monitoring
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was detonated at a depth of 500 ft (150 m) in deep water. There was little evidence of a fireball. The spray dome rose to a height of 900 ft (270 m). Gas from the bubble broke through the spray dome to form jets which shot out in all directions and reached heights of up to
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Unless it breaks the water surface while still a hot gas bubble, an underwater nuclear explosion leaves no trace at the surface but hot, radioactive water rising from below. This is always the case with explosions deeper than about 2,000 ft (610 m).
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Underwater nuclear tests close to the surface can disperse radioactive water and steam over a large area, with severe effects on marine life, nearby infrastructures and humans. The detonation of nuclear weapons underwater was banned by the 1963
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decreasing the air pressure, density, and temperature below the dew point; making a spherical cloud that marked the location of the shock wave. Water filling the cavity formed by the bubble caused a hollow column of water, called the
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The drastic 60% loss of energy between oscillation cycles is caused in part by the extreme force of a nuclear explosion pushing the bubble wall outward supersonically (faster than the speed of sound in saltwater). This causes
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formed at the water's surface is large in comparison with the depth of the explosion. Deep underwater explosions are those where the crater is small in comparison with the depth of the explosion, or nonexistent.
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design since an underwater explosion (particularly one underneath a hull) can produce greater damage than an above-surface one of the same explosive size. Initial damage to a target will be caused by the first
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does: it is less dense. This causes the blast bubble never to be perfectly spherical. Instead, the bottom of the bubble is flatter, and during contraction, it even tends to "reach up" toward the blast center.
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The overall effect of an underwater explosion depends on depth, the size and nature of the explosive charge, and the presence, composition and distance of reflecting surfaces such as the seabed, surface,
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in its last second of life. About six seconds after detonation, all that remains of a large, deep nuclear explosion is a column of hot water rising and cooling in the near-freezing ocean.
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wave was the highest at 6 ft (1.8 m). Gravity caused the column to fall to the surface and caused a cloud of mist to move outward rapidly from the base of the column, called the
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explosion that occurs under the surface of a body of water. While useful in anti-ship and submarine warfare, underwater bombs are not as effective against coastal facilities.
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depth of approximately 1000 meters. Sound waves that travel at this depth travel at minimum speed and are trapped in a layer known as the Sound Fixing and Ranging Channel (
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than shallow ones. They stop oscillating and become mere hot water in about six seconds. This happens sooner in nuclear blasts than bubbles from conventional explosives.
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which was approximately 200 ft (61 m) deep. The first effect was illumination of the sea from the underwater fireball. A rapidly expanding gas bubble created a
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as the cold water filaments that extend into the blast bubble. This is what an underwater nuclear explosion looks like, including the ellipsoid ("squished") shape.
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Atolls. This is incorrect; the bombs were placed in shafts drilled into the underlying coral and volcanic rock, and they did not intentionally leak fallout.
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depend on several things, including distance from the explosion, the energy of the explosion, the depth of the explosion, and the depth of the water.
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that the surface waves from even a very large offshore undersea explosion would expend most of their energy on the continental shelf, resulting in
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1,700 ft (520 m). The base surge at its maximum size was 2.5 mi (4.0 km) in diameter and 1,000 ft (300 m) high.
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The heights of surface waves generated by deep underwater explosions are greater because more energy is delivered to the water. During the
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cooling the bubble wall, and is another reason that an oscillating blast bubble loses most of the energy it had in the previous cycle.
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In the last expansion cycle, the bottom of the bubble touches the top before the sides have fully collapsed, and the bubble becomes a
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The 1946 Baker test, just after the chimney had broken through the cloud, and the crack had formed on the water's surface
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again. This is repeated several times, but each rebound contains only about 40% of the energy of the previous cycle.
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Underwater explosions are categorized by the depth of the explosion. Shallow underwater explosions are those where a
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at the gas/water boundary causes "fingers" of water to extend into the bubble, increasing the boundary surface area.
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test in 1955 occurred at a depth of 2,000 ft (610 m), the deepest detonation of any nuclear device.
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The water pressure of a deep explosion prevents any bubbles from surviving to float up to the surface.
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Expansion quickly becomes unsustainable because the amount of water pushed outward increases with the
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An example of a deep underwater explosion is the Wahoo test, which was carried out in 1958 as part of
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Vast amounts of energy are absorbed by phase change (water becomes steam at the fireball boundary).
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Probe the effects of a shallow underwater nuclear bomb on various surface fleet units.
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Relatively few underwater nuclear tests were performed before they were banned by the
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During these hot gas oscillations, the bubble continually rises for the same reason a
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is the primary means of determining if a nuclear detonation has occurred underwater.
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test to determine specifically submarine vulnerability to deep atomic depth charges.
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As might be expected, large, shallow explosions expand faster than deep, small ones.
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that caused an expanding ring of apparently dark water at the surface, called the
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About one second after such an explosion, the hot gas bubble collapses because:
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Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip (1977). "Descriptions of nuclear explosions".
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Underwater explosions differ from in-air explosions due to the properties of
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All the information in this section is directly from the now-declassified
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Bubble oscillation period as a function of water pressure and blast size
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is stable. Radioactive atoms can result if a hydrogen atom absorbs two
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Three hydroacoustic stations were built before the adoption of the
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Test of a shallow water bomb on ocean floor against ship hulls.
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The expansion reduces gas pressure, which decreases temperature.
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The water pressure is enormous below 2,000 feet (610 m).
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There are several methods of detecting nuclear detonations.
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Analysis of various models of underwater nuclear explosions
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Underwater Nuclear Detonation Detection via Hydroacoustics
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Pressure distribution in water near the blast bubble
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Chemical or nuclear explosion that occurs underwater
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Index


US Navy
chemical
nuclear
water
incompressibility
density
air
inertia
shock waves
explosion
seawater
activate
hydrogen
oxygen
deuterium
oxygen-17
isotopes
oxygen-18
neutrons
(n-p) reaction
nuclear reactor
sodium-23
chlorine-35
Sodium-24
half-life
chlorine-36
coral
nuclear fallout
explosion

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