Awan jamur

Bom Atom terhadap Nagasaki, Jepang pada tanggal 9 Agustus 1945

Awan jamur adalah awan berbentuk jamur dari uap air atau debris yang disebabkan oleh letusan yang sangat besar. Awan jamur umumnya berhubungan dengan ledakan nuklir, tetapi ledakan besar apapun akan membuat pengaruh yang sama. Letusan gunung berapi dapat menciptakan awan jamur alami.

Referensi

• Batchelor, G. K. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
• Glasstone, Samuel, and Dolan, Philip J. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd edn. Washington, DC: United States Department of Defense and Energy Research and Development Administration, 1977. (esp. "Chronological development of an air-burst" and "Description of Air and Surface Bursts" in Chapter II) (This entire book is available here: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml .)
• Vigh, Jonathan. Mechanisms by Which the Atmosphere Adjusts to an Extremely Large Explosive Event, 2001. (See: http://euler.atmos.colostate.edu/~vigh/other_works/at735/vigh_adjustment_mechanisms.pdf .)
• Weart, Spencer. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Pranala luar

• Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapon Archive has many photographs of mushroom clouds
• DOE Nevada Site Office has many photographs of nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere