
Numerous explosive weapons are used to kill infantry there exist anti-personnel grenades, anti-personnel mines, mortars, and shrapnel/high-explosive artillery shells. It should come as no surprise, then, that their lethality means that explosions are used in modern warfare. thermonuclear) explosions are so bright they cause blindness - which is, moreover, permanent within certain ranges. Merely seeing an explosion can be harmful, as some (e.g. perforating or just plain damaging your eardrums (perforation may well render you deaf for life).

Never you mind the effect of all this on your hearing, i.e. That's assuming the heat-wave isn't enough to (instantly) cook your internal organs either or sear enough of your flesh from your bones that you'll die of blood loss. Even if you survive the pressure-wave and the shrapnel, there's a real chance you'll just plain bleed to death from the internal and/or external wounds those two gave you. These aren't usually chunks of rubble big enough to punch your guts out through your chest note those can smart a bit, mind but rather little shards of (sharp) stuff travelling fast enough to bury themselves in your brains. If the pressure-wave doesn't kill you (instantly) by turning your organs to mush or dashing you to pieces against something, all the things and bits of things - shrapnel - caught in the blast can kill you all the same. Let's assume, for a start, that the blast doesn't vaporise you or blow you limb-from-limb.


In the real world, explosions are lethal.
