Oh, the Huge Manatee!
Posted on 03/30/2006 8:54:13 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.
"I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Tegnelia said the test was part of a US effort to develop weapons capable of destroying deeply buried bunkers housing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
"We have several very large penetrators we're developing," he told defense reporters.
[I'd advise you to stay out of Las Vegas in June.]
haha! They arn't setting it off downtown.
Wow, that is a really cool picture. Where did you find it?
"It was a joke..I thought it would be obvious..I guess I was a little too tongue-in-cheek.."
A good joke, I just get my panties in a bunch on the subject. I wrote a 200,000 word book on the protest movement and history of Yucca Mountain. I'll ressurect it over the next year or so.
Oh, the Huge Manatee!
Explosive power (equivalent to tons of TNT)
Not the actual weight.
Very, very interesting.
A practical conventional weapon that large is almost impossible to imagine. It sounds more like an experiment designed to test the effectiveness of a ground penetrating nuke against an underground bunker complex.
Of secondary interest is the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain.
That sounds like shorthand for "we want to evaluate how much radiation would be released into the atmosphere by a ground penetrating nuke."
If I were the Iranians, I would be very nervous after reading this article. No doubt that is a big part of why the test is being publicized. ;-)
Yep. They're after you. :-)
How ya been?
"If we're gonna use something that powerful, why not use a danged nuke in the first place?"
No fallout. This is important if you're going to move in an occupy the territory right after the blast.
Actually it is for mineshafts...
We cannot afford to have a mineshaft gap...
Outside of Vegas, Nevada has mega-muchroom.
Anxious for April!
Of course, as soon as I get back from Seattle, I have to start to pack...:o|
And you? Any more dental work or migraines to fight off?
I have relatives in Vegas. Some I haven't seen in decades, thankfully.........
Plus, nukes have a bad rep. We have nukes that have yields rivaling some of the largest conventional bombs, but the latter will always be used because the U.S. does not want to be accused of "nuking" anyone.
Maybe, just maybe, we are going to use 9/11 tactics on the Iranians......load up an old B-52 with explosives, install remote control, and fly it into Iranian bunker complexes......
daisy cutter is supposed to deliver a large surface blast, this is a penetrator.
Ummm...radioactive fallout?
No, I'm doing pretty well.
I've been busy at work tying up loose ends. I'm going to be moving out of my "temporary" position back to the operational side of things on Monday, so I've been moving my stuff a handful at a time for the past few days.
I've moved my plants and my beanie babies; tomorrow it will be my personal fridge and my computer.
The daughter is doing well. Since her little incident that got her grounded, she's gotten her grades up and dumped her druggie boyfriend. Life is good.
WOO-HOO! Good for your daughter! Give her a hug from me!
Beanie Babies, huh? Do you have the red-eyed tree frog?
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