Posted on 02/21/2012 1:10:59 PM PST by aimhigh
You select the target and bomb size. The website shows you the results. In other words, when the Russians attack, how far away from a big city do you need to live?
Bump for later nuking.
Thanks for the info.........at my age, I'll take my chances right where I am.
Yep -but I have to make sure the yield is low enough not to get to my house in the East Bay ;-)
LOL that’s what I picked but that’s because I live across the bay.(hopefully not for long)
For nuking later.
While it may be plausible to have survived the blast in the fridge, he should have been a bloody pulp in the fridge when it impacted a couple of miles away.
Thanks! That’s one more item I can scratch of my to do list.
Is there only one type of radiation produced from an atomic bomb?
Hasta la nukem.
Israel is going to need a lot more firecrackers to take out the whole Islamic world. http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?lat=21.421893146242027&lng=39.826025925292925&zm=5&kt=100000
Tsar Bomba was only 57 mt. The original design shot for 100 mt, but they reportedly scaled it back to reduce fallout, which was becoming a hot political issue. The original design had a tertiary stage in which a uranium tamper would be fissioned, producing about half the yield and most of the fallout. In the event, Tsar Bomba was, percentage-wise, the cleanest bomb ever tested, with 97% of the yield coming from the fusion reactions.
I plugged in 57 mt at the site, and it calculated a fireball diameter of 3 miles. In the actual test, the fireball grew to 5 miles.
I see Jeddah is at the edge of the thermal radius.
Back in the 60's I remember seeing a US map showing how a mid-continent strike would wipe out the eastern seaboard with radiation.
Detroit has been autonuked by its own government. It took about 50 years but the result is the same.
I went to the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas today to kill time while my daughter was in school. I wouldn’t have gone but I got a half off coupon through Living Social. I’m so glad I bought that deal. The museum was fascinating and very well done. Very much worth the time and money if one visits Las Vegas, especially for those of us that lived through the cold war. I couldn’t begin to do it justice by trying to describe it. I bristled a little listening to a narrator who sounded like Dina Titus. Turned out it was. At least if I had to listen to her, she did a good job. I also came home with a T-shirt and button my 16 year old daughter loves “more than you could know, mom.” I’m hoping we’re close enough to the strip to be at ground zero. Coincidentally, I had water bottles in the trunk to refill after school. It seemed like an especially good idea after the museum.
This is what we’ve lived with our whole lives. We’ve lied to our kids that it’s over but it’s not.
It’s Joshua!
(I never noticed the face-like pattern of the lights before... LOL)
Actually, no, but the stuff you want to watch out for is gamma radiation. Alpha won't penetrate you clothes, and beta will burn your skin, but doesn't really penetrate much past the surface. Gamma, though, goes right through you bouncing off cell nuclei and DNA along the way. The Victoreen 715 has a "beta shield" so it will ignore all but gamma radiation, which, when you're hunkered down in a shelter, is what you want to know about.
Odd to name your biggest weapon after the regime you toppled to get to power - but so it goes...I should have controlled myself better - I went whole hog and sent an asteroid into Mecca - but that appears to have affected human parts of the world too - sorrrrrrry
Thank you Brother. Hopefully we’ll never find out.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.