hey that’s great. Let’s aim one at the three gorges dam.
three gorges dam is one of the most massive structures on earth nnothing short of megaton yield nuclear weapons are going to damage it. Even then you will need penetration warheads to hit the embankments. Hitting the same face would do very little even with megaton yields the mass is simply too great. The Soviets planned on using no less than half a dozen 20 megaton sized warheads to hit NORAD and that’s just dirt and rock not high compression reinforced concrete. You would need hit after hit of our largest trident warheads on the back face of the dam at or below the waterline using the water itself as a mass to focus the yield. Then you can expect the chicoms to wipe out with 5 megaton DF5s every city in the USA with a million or more. They have enough and we don’t habe enough interceptors to.stop them. Yeah not a good idea. Remember China could take 600 million dead in a nuclear exchange and have half it’s people still alive to rebuild. The USA looses 200 million and we cease to be a society. They win by demographics alone and they know this.
Knocking out the Three Gorges dam would probably kill tens of millions of civilians. Perhaps over a year, hundreds of millions, especially considering the agriculture it enables.
I think if we have a shooting war with China, there are better ways of knocking out their industrial base than one with such a high civilian death toll.
Let’s aim one at the three gorges dam.
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That is such a stupid idea its hard to imagine a moron coming up with it.