Posted on 03/17/2017 9:49:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Nope....Even Obama said it.
Seoul has a land area of about 233 square miles. While exploding a 20 KT device in it would improve no one’s health, it would most definitely NOT turn all of the city into a “sheet of glass.”
It’d do a lot of damage within a 1.2 mile radius of the blast epicenter (1.9 kilometers) - that’s the radius within which you’d have 5 lbs/sq. inch (PSI), which is enough to destroy most homes and other structures that aren’t very strong. 1 PSI only extends out to 5.9 km, which is about 2.4 miles. Beyond that, there wouldn’t be much damage or casualties. a circle with a diameter of 4.8 miles has an area of about 18.1 sq. miles, less than 10% of the area of Seoul.
Again, I’m not trying to minimize the damage that even a small nuke could do - it would be horrific for anyone within about 2.5 miles - but I think that we should stick with FACTS.
Here’s where I got the data: http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/ABC_Weapons/Nuke_Effects_Calculator.htm To me, the value of calculators like this is that they are factual...so that no one is able to be an overly-emotional idiot and claim that a single nuke could “literally destroy the nation” or even a whole city. They are powerful and destructive, to be sure, but here science trumps feelings.
FYI, going up to a 1 MT bomb (50 times the explosive force) “only” gives you 5 PSI out to 7 km, which is about 4.2 miles, and 1 PSI out to 21.4 km, which is a hair over 13 miles. IOW, NOT 50 times the distance for the same effects. The explosive force of a weapon diminishes considerably because of distance.
You are probably right. Even Trump is hampered by weak military. I heard last night we only have 3 out of 50 battle ready battalions. You can’t make that up. We damned near lost this country lock stock and barrel with the leftists.
You American hating POS.
Sneak attack.60 day rule.We will be out of there. Bush’s doctrine of preemption but with a REAL threat.
So many unknown factors resulting from a preventive attack on NK. First would China and Russia stand by and let their junk yard dog be taken down followed by having US troops on the borders they share?
If nuclear detonations take place would deadly fallout go into these counties? For instance Russia’s main city in the Far East is less than 100 miles from that border.
Does NK have nuclear artillery shells? Might their missiles hit the South Korean and Japanese nuclear plants resulting in massive and long lasting wide spread radiation? And last do they have effective biological super weapons?
The results being a massive changing of the Far East and maybe the entire world.
No, it is called political strategy that snowflakes ignorant of history and Machiavelli do not like obviously.
I really think we are going to but our military is in shamble, full of queers and women (in combat). Once we get that wiped away— we are going to NUKE those arrogant communist bastards. That fat boy will look like a slab of burnt bacon,
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