Surviving a point blank nuclear explosion

hornetstinger · 23 Jun 2017 at 14:01

Would it be possible, with unlimited military and civlian spending to build a vehicle that would protect it's occupants from a point blank high yield nuclear explosion? I do know certain battle tanks will protect to a certain point, from shock waves, thermal blast, kinetic and X-rays etc, but they must be at a set distance from ground zero.

hornetstinger · 23 Jun 2017 at 14:41

ZXSpectrum said:
I would have thought that even if its not point blank range but within the blast radius the concussive blast and resulting heat would vaporise or turn someone to mush... Along with buildings, cars, anything else in the way.

What if the vehicle had tens of meters of dense materal as a outer layer, such as ceramic? That would protect from the initial heat.

hornetstinger · 23 Jun 2017 at 20:33

What about a weapon that could nullify a nuclear blast? Maybe hyper velocity plasma?

hornetstinger · 24 Jun 2017 at 20:27

yeah look what we've done since 1700. Steam power to sending a probe outside of the solar system, all of that in just 300 years.