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mushroom cloud
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Mushroom cloud
A
mushroom cloud
is a distinctive
pyrocumulus
mushroom
-shaped
cloud
of
debris
/smoke and usually condensed
water vapor
resulting from a large
explosion
. The effect is most commonly associated with a
nuclear explosion
(and sometimes referred to in this context as a thunderball), but any sufficiently energetic detonation or deflagration will produce the same sort of effect. They can be caused by powerful
conventional weapons
, like
vacuum bombs
, including the
ATBIP
and
GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast
. Some
volcanic
eruptions and
impact events
can produce natural mushroom clouds.
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