
Flash burn
Encyclopedia
Flash burn can mean:
- Arc eye, also called corneal flash burn
- The effect that in a nuclear explosionNuclear explosionA nuclear explosion occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from an intentionally high-speed nuclear reaction. The driving reaction may be nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a multistage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion based weapons have used a fission device...
of sufficient magnitude, the majority of damage is done by light and thermal radiation