Keywords: Mushroom cloud.svg Formation of a mushroom cloud Depicts the drawing up of cool air into the hot cloud via the stem and inside the cloud is a toroidal circulation of hot gases with an updraft through the center of the toroid Outside of the center of the cloud the gas has cooled substantially and looks like a regular cloud Based roughly on figure 2 07a in Samuel Glasson and Philip J Dolan eds The Effects of Nuclear Weapons 3rd edn Washington D C U S Department of Defense/Energy Research and Development Administration 1977 p 29 Created by User Fastfission in Adobe Illustrator Fastfission If you want to credit someone credit Wikimedia Commons Otherwise don't credit anyone that's fine by me --Fastfission 14 56 14 April 2008 UTC Nuclear explosion physics Mushroom clouds Nuke icons |