Re:How to Get a Nuclear Bomb (2006)
by tomjen3 on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @12:32PM
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>and the use of even a single fission device could pose an existential threat to the West.
Hardly. There was some "let's drop a bomb and see what the effect roughly is" emulator online that I used about a year ago -- and I was shocked how tiny the effect of neuclear weapons was. A Chinese 15 Kiloton weapon dropped in the middle of the city I was in wouldn't even result in elevated
radiation were I lived unless the wind was in the wrong direction.
The tiny suitcase bombs they are shitting themselves that the terroists might get their hands on?
Yeah, those do so little damage that you would be better of with a large van conventional explosives.
Hardly. There was some "let's drop a bomb and see what the effect roughly is" emulator online that I used about a year ago -- and I was shocked how tiny the effect of neuclear weapons was. A Chinese 15 Kiloton weapon dropped in the middle of the city I was in wouldn't even result in elevated radiation were I lived unless the wind was in the wrong direction.
The tiny suitcase bombs they are shitting themselves that the terroists might get their hands on?
Yeah, those do so little damage that you would be better of with a large van conventional explosives.