There's also the fissile material involved, but I couldnt tell you what proportion of the energy is disappated through heat and what proportion is dissapated in light.
Everyone has seen the videos of the atomic bomb going off - that massive release of heat and energy that literally vaporizes mass that is close to the epicenter. Now imagine that reaction in space where the heat can't be disappated through atmosphere, water, or earth. All of that energy has to go somewhere, so it's all stored in whatever fissile material is left after the bomb goes off and dissapated through light and radiation.
I really wish I had some numbers for how hot that remaining material would get - even thinking about all the heat released in an atomic bomb concentrated into such a small amount of mass absolutely boggles the mind.
Everyone has seen the videos of the atomic bomb going off - that massive release of heat and energy that literally vaporizes mass that is close to the epicenter. Now imagine that reaction in space where the heat can't be disappated through atmosphere, water, or earth. All of that energy has to go somewhere, so it's all stored in whatever fissile material is left after the bomb goes off and dissapated through light and radiation.
I really wish I had some numbers for how hot that remaining material would get - even thinking about all the heat released in an atomic bomb concentrated into such a small amount of mass absolutely boggles the mind.