A 40 MT blast will not wipe out France.
Indeed. This level of reporter hyperbole and ignorance is typical. These are the very idiots we rely on for reporting on the campaign.
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If he’s talking about a missile with 16 40MT warheads, it could pretty much do in France.
If he’s talking about a missile with 16 40MT warheads, it could pretty much do in France.
Something does not add up in this report, which is no surprise coming from today’s media. A Trident II, which is one of the more modern MIRVd missiles, carries 8 to 12 W88 fusion bombs; each with a yield of 475 KT. The W88 is the most advanced weapon we have.
It would seem highly improbable you could create a MIRVd weapon with a yield of 40MT unless there was a break thru on the design of the weapon; such as a theoretical matter/antimatter bomb.