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This new nuclear-armed US bomb may be the most dangerous weapon in America's arsenal
Business Insider ^ | July 28th, 2015 | By Jeremy Bender

Posted on 07/28/2015 3:37:04 PM PDT by Mariner

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To: Norm Lenhart

It would take all of the weapons in that one bunker to cripple / destroy all of Iran’s targets. I can’t remember how many there were but I remember at least two dozen targets. I counted at least 44 weapons there. Almost two per target.

In “The Day After”, you’ll notice the Russian strike is first an EMP burst at higher altitude, then the first real strike, followed by the second strike. I must confess I don’t know what the actual timing is but I suppose they were going for multiple warheads from the same missile platform. They got the X-Ray thing right though.

It’s even prophesied in Zechariah.

Zechariah 14:12 King James Version (KJV)

12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA

But yeah, if their effect were multiplied....


21 posted on 07/28/2015 4:15:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

Two rapid detonations result in massive pressure in the colliding wave fronts.

Quite a force multiplier. Literal ‘force’ multiplier.


22 posted on 07/28/2015 4:18:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: USNBandit

I guess they only deactivated the oldest B-61’s.

I used to know somebody who was deployed at a B-1 base back in the day when they had the strike role.


23 posted on 07/28/2015 4:19:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: USNBandit
I would imagine they've got GPS-steering now, yah.

For others, that's a B-83 on the left with the B-61 on the right.


24 posted on 07/28/2015 4:24:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mariner
Twice the power of the Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki, and three times the power of Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima.

Not such a small bomb.

25 posted on 07/28/2015 4:28:08 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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To: Mariner

Sometimes those weird earthquakes which have a fairly low Richter reading and happen in unusual places could be a bit of underground ‘testing’.


26 posted on 07/28/2015 4:28:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Mariner

Re its’ “accuracy and low yield”. Under Obama it will be “inaccuracy and low yield”, just like the interest on our Bonds, savings accounts, the recession is over, and you can keep your insurance and doctor if you like them.


27 posted on 07/28/2015 4:29:08 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ClearCase_guy; Norm Lenhart

[Twice the power of the Fat Man dropped]

Must. Resist. Chris Christie. Joke.

Much. Resist. We Much.


28 posted on 07/28/2015 4:32:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mariner

If I’m going to use a nuke, I’m not going to worry about “unintended casualties” (aka “collateral damage”).

It’s call “WAR”, not “Make Pretend”!


29 posted on 07/28/2015 4:34:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: taxcontrol

In the 1980’s there were simulations on a DEC Vax 11-780 computer. Perhaps a 785.

I remember the article because we had a Vax 11-780 at the college I attended. And a 735. For those of you out there who may have known those machines.

Boy, have things changed.

I remember how they were shocked how quickly field commanders went for the nukes, sometimes destroying part of their own forces by close detonations.

At that time, we still had missiles in Europe to nuke Russian tanks if they came over the border.


30 posted on 07/28/2015 4:39:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Mariner
I addressed this issue in my 1988 book A Fighting Chance: The Moral Use of Nuclear Weapons. Making bombs so horrible that you're afraid to use them doesn't really deter a determined enemy. Making bombs usable, in the sense that they are accurate and with a yield tailored to the target, provides more deterrence because the enemy is more likely to believe that you'll actually use the things.

The worst situation would be to have bombs that are less accurate but have higher yield, and find yourself in such a tight spot that you have to use them.

As I said in the book, we don't want to be programmed for holocaust.

Looks like I'd better dust that book off and update it.

31 posted on 07/28/2015 5:47:09 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: SaveFerris
sometimes destroying part of their own forces by close detonations.

It's been years since I saw it, but there was a movie called "Atomic Cafe" which was something of a documentary of early nuclear testing. It was oddly funny in parts.

One scene:
Newsman: "General, are the soldiers in danger from this bomb test?"
General: "Absolutely not. The soldiers will be no where near the blast. They will be a good thousand yards away from the actual nuclear detonation."
[Scientist leans over and whispers to the general]
General: "They may be even farther away than that."

Another scene: Scientist announcing that the above ground testing was not going to be harmful. Observers were sufficiently far away that they would be safe. The only danger would come from direct ingestion of radioactive dust, but basic precaution would stop this from occurring.
[CUT TO]
Interview with an observer:
Newsman: "What did you think of that explosion?"
Soldier: "It was really tremendous. The only part I didn't like was when all of that dust fly into my mouth."

32 posted on 07/28/2015 5:55:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah, I think that was just beyond wrong.


33 posted on 07/28/2015 5:56:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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34 posted on 07/28/2015 6:12:48 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Mariner

Sharp climb from low level and guided parabolic loft, or guided from high altitude drop? More ways to intercept now. Stealth or countermeasures allow to reach defended target after release?


35 posted on 07/28/2015 6:18:40 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

1.2 megatons is the largest US nuke?


36 posted on 07/28/2015 7:28:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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To: Mariner

I’m sure Iran will restrain themselves from developing any nukes larger than 1.2 megatons. /s


37 posted on 07/28/2015 7:29:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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To: Mariner

‘... the most dangerous nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal ...”

Zachary Keck as made the most fundamental error possible.

There are no dangerous weapons. Big or little, a weapon is merely an instrumentality: it has no volition, no moral content.

There are dangerous men, though.


38 posted on 07/28/2015 7:30:33 PM PDT by schurmann
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To: Mariner; big'ol_freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; RockinRight; ...
Re; This new nuclear-armed US bomb [B61 Mod 12] may be the most dangerous weapon in America's arsenal

I would rather think... the Iranians' A-bomb they were never to have but granted to them by Obama would "be the most dangerous weapon."

Of course, as the way things are going, the B61 Mod 12... will be used by President Cruz to get things set right in the Middle East.

39 posted on 07/28/2015 7:49:22 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Rebelbase
1.2 megatons is the largest US nuke?

From the article, that would appear to be the most powerful nuke currently in the arsenal.

40 posted on 07/29/2015 6:25:41 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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