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I was just now thinking and 150kt is about seven times as powerful as the Hiroshima blast on August 6th 1945. You want a first hand view of that damage, do a google and check out the pics out there. Then think seven times that in New York. I think 150kt is unrealistic.

3,846 posted on 06/09/2004 3:42:37 PM PDT by ExSoldier (When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic. (R.I.P. harpseal))

It's 150 tons not kilotons...

3,852 posted on 06/09/2004 3:54:01 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)

I've been traveling again and just starting to catch up on the thread. Noticed the interest in 150KT nuclear blasts, and made a few rough estimates to help out:

Reference 150KT nuclear device:

Just for comparism, the Soviet/Russian SS-18 Satan missile or the US ALCM-5 cruise missiles have warheads in that range.

The SS-18 warhead has different ranges from 150 KT to 550KT in yield, depending on if it uses MIRV's or a single warhead, if I remember correctly.

Blast radius: 3 miles approximately
Fallout radius: up to 40 miles depending on wind direction and windspeed
Kill radius: 2-3 miles radius of 100 percent casualties regardless of wind direction, and downwind fallout would carry the following approximate exposures: 1000 Rem exposure out to approximately 10-12 miles, 500 Rem to approximately 15, and 100 Rem out to approximately 40 miles if you are in the fallout path.

Pakistans nukes are believed to be in the 20-25 KT range. They are first generation and havent mastered the process of reducing payload weight.

Hope that helps out

3,856 posted on 06/09/2004 4:03:50 PM PDT by judicial meanz

I was just now thinking and 150kt is about seven times as powerful as the Hiroshima blast on August 6th 1945.

Hiroshima was actually about 14.7 KT. One of my co-workers was the first person to physically visit Hiroshima to calculate the yield. His study included the melting patterns of the electric insulators on the power poles. Search for Gritzner and Hiroshima. Mike Gritzner did some pretty amazing work.

3,921 posted on 06/09/2004 7:49:58 PM PDT by Myrddin

3,978 posted on 06/09/2004 9:36:57 PM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)

Re- nukes.

IMO their plan would provide for redundancy. I believe they would plan to detonate or lob more than one nuke per target city. Recall Sean said that there were some 35 nukes in clusters of 4-5 across US cities?

I think they would probably have a nuke or two stashed in the city, and a nuke or two coming in from the water.

4,023 posted on 06/10/2004 6:47:48 AM PDT by jerseygirl

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