Posted on 09/04/2017 6:00:02 PM PDT by hapnHal
Can North Korean Hydrogen Bomb Evaporate New York in Case of Surface Blast?
How much damage can it cause
Professor of Korean studies at Kookmin University, Seoul, told Al Jazeera that it can completely destroy New York. “Such a device could evaporate the entire city of New York completely – no one would stay alive. With an atomic bomb, you can kill half of Manhattan, at most,” he said. Website Nuclear Secrecy, assesses the damage on New York in case of a blast yielding 50 kilotonnes. Its findings are disturbing.
Effects radii for 50 kiloton surface burst (smallest to largest): Fireball radius: 380 m (0.45 km²) Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation.
If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased. Air blast radius (20 psi): 0.8 km (2.02 km²) At 20 psi overpressure, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%.
Radiation radius (500 rem): 1.64 km (8.41 km²) 500 rem radiation dose; without medical treatment, there can be expected between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects alone. Dying takes between several hours and several weeks.
Air blast radius (5 psi): 1.69 km (8.94 km²) At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 2.87 km (25.9 km²) Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 9.5 cal/cm2.
“Tens of millions could starve.”
That’s really a sad statement,,to think millions of people don’t know how to grow a vegetable garden (there’s even winter time vegetables that can be grown.) Or go catch fish in a stream. Or last option (I love animals) shoot a rabbit, deer, or squirrel.
Maybe millions would quickly learn how to fish. Walk out of those cities and find a good pond or fruit tree, maybe some wild muscadines. Since no one would be able to text, there would be plenty of free time to hunt for food.
I turned 18 just in time to vote for President Ford. From that time on excepting Trump, the only Republican that didn't cower in a corner when the press/Dems called them names or flung accusations was Reagan. The rest did nothing and thus never energized their base. The Clintons were so bad and corrupt that it allowed Bush II to barely sneak in. His weak spie in regards to defending himself and conservatism gave us Odumbo.
Can all of that ordinance fit on a single BUFF?
Does that mean we’re not getting the Pueblo back?
It’s the transformers. They are not protected for the most part and already pretty much built on demand, not stockpiled.
A major hurricane will do more power distribution damage than any crap NK EMP. We get one or two (or more) each year. Are we currently starving in GA because of the power issues in TX? Will TX not have power for years to come? Do they not have enough transformer replacements, on hand?
There’s a big difference between half the transformers in Houston and half in the US. There’s also a big difference with however many you saw in storage. It doesn’t take a very sophisticated bomb to do massive damage to the grid. Someday someone will be crazy enough to try it. I’d rather see a list of those who might have than know the one who did.
Best to you, man.
Sad, but true.
Many millions would simply be unable to cope. Even with modern weapons and fishing equipment it isn’t easy to shoot or catch enough food to survive. Also, after about a week, most people are out of anything to eat at home and those who are hungry will kill others to steal their food.
Even today with cheap abundant food there are those who would rather rob others than work. Imagine after there where no products on store shelves and no prospects of them ever being stocked again.
Civilization is very fragile.
Can it really happen?
Good lord, our son works in Silicon Valley.
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