Posted on 12/18/2016 1:29:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
No, it isn't. It's a bunch of baloney.
Because the destructive energy of a bomb is diffused over a volume, every factor of 10 increase in energy amounts to an increase in blast radius of only 2.15.
100 1 megaton bombs are far more dangerous, and every Russian physicist knows it.
Underwater detonation of such a weapon would amount to nothing more than a burp. Do you have any idea how many gigatons of energy are unleashed by an earthquake to cause just a 10 foot tsunami? 100 megatons isn't even in the ballpark.
Can’t do it. Such a bomb would kill a lot of fish. They’d be in big, big trouble with the EPA.
Actually, the TSAR bomb was also a tactical weapon. No missile could have carried it, a bomber couldn't have made it through NORAD defences.
The plan was 5 airburst TSAR bombs, dropped just over the frontier into W Germany, everything fried. WARPAC tanks roll virtually unopposed to the Rhine and beyond.
Wow, this is really really interesting. Meanwhile, our ICBM’s need 8” FLOPPIES to upload targeting data.
That is not a typo, btw.
Boy, I wish we had one of those.
If a space object is approaching earth then i would call Russia up and ask if they by chance have anything bigger.
Hopefully combined nations will get their act together to build a REAL global defense.
I doubt there was anything accidental about this release. It appears to be a typical Russian propaganda of the old Soviet way.
Can’t we get them to attack the west coast instead?
I think it is important the context of this weapon.
It would not be used in any other than the scenario where about (guessing) 5 to 20 thermonuclear weapons would be dropped on top of every Russian city and military base. Moscow would be hit by over 100.
Russia may destroy us utterly, but they would not “win”.
Yeah, and if Putin has to do a little genocide to fight these “globalists” in Aleppo, then he’s the man for you. Assad can kill the “globalists” with barrel bombs when they go to the market place. You can’t, after all, make an omelette without breaking some eggs. And you’re not really against globalists, you’re just in favor of Putin leading the globalists you want to win.
Not to mention you don't need 100 megatons to generate impressive EMP. Or that, with a single 100 megaton warhead, if its transport is sunk or disabled, the threat is over: but with 100 individual 100 megaton warheads, each and every one that gets through, is (to a 1st approximation) an entire city really badly hosed.
I think the robosub idea is interesting, but not with tsar bomb aboard. I could imagine a mini robosub, containing nuclear cruise missile, snuck out of port underneath a cargo ship. When it reaches target coastal area, it detaches and sinks to ocean floor and waits, like a mine, until such time as they send a launch signal.
Hypothetically, maybe they could engineer them to wait for years? When signal is sent, then cruise missile launches, with travel time under 10-15 minutes, delivering either airburst, or EMP effect over target city or area. Multiple minisubs could hit critical targets very quickly. Of course this could be movie fantasy daydreams.
At 0.1 Gigatons, how much longer before the 1 Gigaton device is produced?
(Awaiting Iran and NORK alliance...)
What is being fought in Aleppo are not the globalists, but the jihadi tools of the globalists.
It is not pretty... but when was war pretty?
I am under no illusions about the brutal nature of the war in Syria. But I know that Assad has to win this war, or you will see a real genocide perpetrated on all non-Sunnis by the “rebels”.
When critizing Assad and his supporters, be so fair and have a look at his opponents. If you are still against Assad, your priorities are messed up.
All of which puts you on Iran and Putin’s side. I choose neither, and do not accept that indiscriminate bombing is necessary to win against ISIS. And if you opposed ISIS you’d want Assad to start bombing them instead of the non-ISIS insurgents. Oh, that’s right, RT doesn’t inform you that there are non al Qaeda/non-ISIS insurgents.
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