Theory of the Fireball

temperature is aromd Tb, and in which the temperature distribution is
essentially that originmy establishea by shock and subsequent adiabatic
expansion. It is to this condition that the tqeraht?e dis’t;ribukion
The mean free path for radiation in the blocking layer (at 18,000°)
according to Gilmore21 is about
The radius €$., at
at sea level, is
which this temperature occurs, for a 1-megaton explosion
% = 300 to 400 meters. Using T - R-”, this gives
This is equivalent to black body emission at the effective temperature
Using the equation of state at 18,00o0,