* This section describes the physics and injuries from conventional blasts. Nuclear explosions, in contrast, are so powerful that they behave differently and can sometimes violate these general rules. For example, the blast durations from nuclear bombs are in fact so atypically long that they may theoretically translate a human being without requiring the high overpressure levels that would kill them from primary blast trauma. However, even during the forceful blast winds of Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear test series in global history, freestanding mannequins exposed to pressures just below lethal were displaced a maximum of only 11 feet. Although these mannequins may have theoretically escaped primary blast trauma, they nonetheless received whole-body patterns of severe burns despite being wrapped in heat-resistant foil, indicating that surviving these exposures was still highly unlikely.