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To: Scythian

Damn, that’s like being 12 years old and having to throw away the biggest firecracker in your collection.

Couldn’t they’ve just dropped it on Tehran, say instead of sending a Chrismas card?


28 posted on 10/25/2011 9:31:04 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Moltke

Assuming a detonation at optimum height, a 9 megaton blast would result in a fireball some 4 to 5 kilometers (2.5 to 3 miles) in diameter.[9] The radiated heat would be sufficient to cause lethal burns to any unprotected person within a 28.7 kilometers (17.8 mi) radius (995 square miles (2,580 km2)). Blast effects would be sufficient to collapse most residential and industrial structures within a 14.9-kilometer (9.3 mi) radius (300 square miles (780 km2)); within 5.7 kilometers (3.5 mi) virtually all above-ground structures would be destroyed and blast effects would inflict near 100% fatalities. Within 4.7 kilometers (2.9 mi) a 500 rem dose of ionizing radiation would be received by the average person, sufficient to cause a 50% to 90% casualty rate independent of thermal or blast effects at this distance.


Your post isn’t particularly amusing in light of this, is it? This weapon is immoral, and its dismantling should be celebrated by all people of good conscience.


30 posted on 10/25/2011 9:37:43 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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