A team of Chinese army scientists ran a laboratory simulation to answer a stark question: what happens if three nuclear warheads hit the same spot in quick succession?
Led by Xu Xiaohui, an associate professor in Nanjing, the group modelled the test on the US Palanquin experiment from 1965, triggering a single 4.3-kiloton equivalent blast at about 85 meters (279 feet) deep.
Compared with the Palanquin baseline, the triple-strike setup more than doubled the crater radius, from 46 meters (151 feet) to 114 meters (374 feet), and increased depth from 28 meters (92 feet) to 35 meters (115 feet).
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