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To: C19fan

Not only is this perhaps one of the most fearsome and powerful weapons ever developed, it is much more likely to be delivered to points where its potential may be maximized largely undetected.

Just consider the tsunami wave formed by its detonation alone, and multiply that with the fierce column of heat and radioactivity that would be thrown up and scattered far through the earth’s atmosphere. Makes ICBM warheads seem like firecrackers in comparison.

Nuclear weapon air bursts are bad enough. A subsurface marine detonation of these dimensions would be infinitely worse.

Even in open ocean. In a port or relatively shallow coastal waters (like the English Channel), the disruption to human activity on this planet wold be impossible to describe beforehand, and perhaps not even afterward.


8 posted on 01/19/2018 8:32:27 AM PST by alloysteel (Sometimes I have to tell myself, it just isn't worth the jail time.)
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To: alloysteel
Light one off in the English Channel in the proper place (maybe more than one) and kill much of European shipping for a decade.

London, Rotterdam, Dunkirk, Amsterdam. Repeat for the German and Polish ports.

But still much easier to build a nuclear mine with some movement and anchor it off the coast a bit.

15 posted on 01/19/2018 9:06:23 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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