Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto
by ramgorur on Sunday January 03, 2016 @09:01PM
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what the hell is NUKEMAP 3D? it's in the russian wiki, never heard of it. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap3d/
Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto
by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:31PM
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i think it is supposed to calculate the effect of a blast - given such parameters as height of detonation and charge, it estimates the fallout and how it is spread out by prevailing winds. They used to have a paper-wheel calculator for that https://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/ ; this is the online graphical version for the 21st century.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine...
also Russian wikipedia has a longer article on this beast
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83...
it says that this contraption is straight out of Dr. Strangelove
* once it is on its way then it can't be recalled
* also they plan to put Cobalt near the fusion core, making it a cobalt bomb, just like in Dr. Strangelove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb )
* Russian wikipedia says that this outrage is supposed to counter US Anti ballistic missiles. (Again Dr. Strangelove - the doomsday device was supposed to counter a massive ballistic missile buildup - for a fraction of the cost).
What worries me is that the worlds elites seem to be a bit less rational than what we had during the cold war ... The Russians seem to be a lot more saber rattling than the Soviet leadership. (I may be wrong here; the defense council is said to have considered the nuking of China during the 1969 border conflict http://www.scmp.com/article/714064/nixon-intervention-saved-... )