Posted on 11/27/2012 3:25:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
Those terms blend a bit at that level. A true H-bomb is a Teller-Ulam style multistage device. A boosted primary alone is what triggers the H-bombs. The initial ‘A-Bombs’ in the 40’s weren’t boosted.
So a boosted gets from you 15-20 up to 50-60, maybe a 400 kt depending. A true ‘H-bomb’ can be lower yield though, I depends on if the weapon uses the primary/secondary configuration. The primary (boosted or not) is considered just a primary.
Adding the hydrogen isotopes tritium and deuterium boosts the yield of fission bombs. This was first tested by the US during the early 1950s and doubled the explosive yield from the first Hiroshima and Nagasaki designs. Iran is assisted in developing high yield bombs because that the technology is well known and almost certainly they had help from either North Korea or rogue Pakistani nuke designer A.Q.Khan.
I appreciate your tag line... So many have given their lives for our FREEDOM... We are next in line to maintain that liberty for our posterity.
Iran’s building an enormous nuclear weapon???
Wow, there’s a shocker.
Do you think maybe somebody should tell the Israelis? It’s possible they don’t know about this....
Of course it won’t be the iranians who drop the bomb on Israel. They’ll use a proxy, maybe have the syrians do it for them.
Are you serious?
“C’mon ... the arabs haven’t done anything significant since the 5th century. They’ll blow themselves up trying to figure out which end the trigger is on ;”
Um... the Iranians ain’t “Arabs”.
And how about those durn Pakistanis? They’re still here....
“how many Muslims/Arabs/Palestinians would a bomb that size kill in addition to the Israelis?
That’s ok, they will be declared “martyrs” and everybody will be happy!”
That’s actually their strategy.
The muslim world knows that a modestly successful nuclear attack on Israel would result in many, many muslim deaths.
They also realize that in the aftermath of the attack, Israeli survivors would likely initiate “The Samson Option”, destroying a good part of the muslim world.
However — the muslims don’t care. They (or those who purport to lead them, spiritually) would give up half their population, so long as Israel was obliterated in the exchange.
The muslim world would survive, but Israel would be gone.
For them, that’s “game over”.
They could always detonate it in another Muslim country and blame it on Israel or us. They don’t have the capability to make nukes so it would have to be the evil infidels.
Bear in mind that Iran would most likely be building more than one bomb—probably quite a few. And remember that Iran has sent at least a couple of satellites into space, and long ago claimed to have or claimed that they were building EMP weapons. Iranian leaders have threatened to destroy Israel, but also, a few years ago, to destroy the West (several times).
Publications in certain European countries propagandized for several years that there is only a conflict between Iran and Israel in order to mislead us into negotiating between the two (against Israel) as moral equals instead of seeing Iran as an enemy against the West in general.
I posted hundreds of articles on the topic a few years ago, but most who commented downplayed the importance of the matter and ridiculed such news (probably international trade interests, revenue/debt interests other than defense, anti-Israel interests, others). Iran most likely obtained assistance from higher education in our own USA (many of them in physics, engineering,...) more directly from engineers from North Korea, Pakistan and other places (public news).
Oil, money and pride are not more important than what we should be doing (pride, for example, that of a particular Pharoah of the past, and maybe another in Babylon, and many others). Many have recently said that they have feelings of unease—that something terrible might happen in the near future. But their responses about their intended reactions are often erroneous and wrong (plans to live by the sword against their own neighbors). They haven’t learned about the only righteous fear that they should have.
Good post.
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You forget that He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep (Ps 121:4).
You can play around with some templates, targets and various devices here:
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearexplosionsimulator/
You forget that He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep (Ps 121:4).
Take out ALL NYC, or LA, Or DC. Plus a little. Probably about ten miles in circumference. Then lots of crap in the air.
Use your imagination. Picture a ton of TNT on a football field and expect it to absolutely destroy everything on the field - every blade of grass and make it so you never knew the bleachers were there.
Now, picture 50,000 football fields all bunched together. How far do they stretch in all directions?
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