Posted on 12/06/2004 6:56:56 AM PST by dead
Thanks, good to know. I say the Marines are the best, but really its our Air Force guys who are #1.
Even a metal button or wrist watch will act as a neutron emitter when a neutron bomb goes off...
http://www.manuelsweb.com/neutronbomb.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
Invented by Sam Cohen
http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm
During the 50s and 60s, HUNDREDS of atomic and thermonuclear bombs were detonated ABOVE GROUND and we're still here to talk about it. Some were over ten times the yield of the largest we have in our inventory now.
A few nukes would not result in enough "fallout" to get your panties in a bunch about.
ERWs (Enhanced Radiation Weapons, aka 'neutron bombs') are very destructive in themselves, contrary to popular misconceptions. An EHR of, say, 5okiloTon yield would cause approximately the same blast damage as the 10-20 kT Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. They would kill biologicals out to a greater distance through radiation effects than those weapons did, but they still are enormously destructive. In general the radiation effects are enhanced about threefold over "conventional" nuclear bombs.
50 kT (not 5oKiloTon)
I probably ought to add that it appears that the US has no EHRs in our inventory and that, most likely, because we have rejected that they are more useful than conventionals bacause they complicate the battlefield situation rather than simplify it.
Nothing short of military confrontation could have stopped this. If that's what you're suggesting then I would agree. Anything short of that, fuh-get aboud it....
Are we as healthy
as we were before? Are we
susceptible to
weird, emergent bugs
that didn't used to hurt us?
Are the ozone caps
the same as they were?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc,
sure, but ya wonder . . .
This may shed some light on this:
http://prophecy.org/167pro.htm
This prophet says that an atomic bomb will be detonated in San Francisco in the year of the Ram, which the next one is in 2015. The year of the Ram happens every twelve years. This prophet has been amazingly accurate, I have followed him and the site since 1995.
Mohommed needs to leave,with Kofi.
These mutts are endangering my country,life.
Actually three; the third was an elected official in the 1970s, replaced by RR.
>>If it ever happens we will not know which rouge nation did it.
Nuclear materials have known signatures. We'll likely know the origin of the materials from the fallout.
I'm not very optimistic about this.
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