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To: Retain Mike

Davy Crockett was a dirty bomb. No Nuke explosion.

Critical mass or implosion devises are not small.


22 posted on 03/19/2017 5:41:43 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Wikipedia and other sources contain statements such as, “The M-388 round used a version of the Mk-54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 lb (23 kg), with a yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 and 20 tons of TNT—very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead.”

I see a video of text firing the device and it looks like a significant explosion to me.

I see a picture of a man holding the warhead with a yield four times as great as the largest conventional bomb produced by the Allies in the Second World War.


39 posted on 03/19/2017 11:51:13 AM PDT by Retain Mike
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