ملخص
Abstract
An atomic bomb or any normal bomb may be exploded in the air or at or near the surface of the earth. The medium in which the bomb is burst determines to a large extent the relative magnitudes of the various damaging effects. The detonation of an atomic weapon releases a largeamount of energy in a fraction of a second. During this time the bombcomponents are volatilized into a sphere of hot compressed gas at a temperature of millions of degrees and a pressure of the order of hundredsof thousands of atmospheres. This phenomenon is characterized by an instantaneous and very rapid rise to a maximum pressure followed by a decline to sub-atmospheric pressure and then a gradual return to normal pressure. In this thesis the definitions and types of explosives and explosions are studied, effects of the different types of explosions are explained, transition of atomic air blast pressure from center of explosion to buildings are presented, determination of atomic air blast loading on buildings is studied as well.