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.
Lots of information in this 115 page draft assessment.
Large-Scale, Open-Air Explosive Detonation, DIVINE STRAKE, at the Nevada Test Site.
http://budget.state.nv.us/clearinghouse/Notice/2006/E2006-222.pdf
Iran came to mind immediately!
make that 0.7 kiloton
Actually they plan to use all the antimatter we have on earth (0.000000001 gram) to make 4-9 bombs at 2kt each :-)
If we could create just 1 gram of antimatter per year that would still be a big bang!!
Yup...I was thinking in Megatons.
"If we could create just 1 gram of antimatter per year that would still be a big bang!!"
Such wampum would also make spaceship go big fast, which would be my choice for such a commodity.
LOL
Reading into that, it is a test of the blast effect and fallout from a sub-kiloton, deep penetration nuclear bunker buster.
The nuclear equivalent of a 700 ton conventional explosion would be fairly light. A B-2 could carry several I think.
Test it in I-ran.
The Theodore Roosevelt strategy.
Nash in '08!
ANFO is just a fuel oil and ammonium nitrate mix. I guarantee this is just a surrogate for a nuke weapons test.
LOL!!! . . . snort . . . LOL!!!
That statement freaked me out - you couldn't really see mushroom clouds from Vegas when they were testing nukes in the past could you?
Suppose you were working on a small nuke with about a 0.7 to 1 kiloton yield but you couldn't do a field test to see what the physical effects would be on an installation carved into a subterranean granite structure. I find the idea of a conventional weapon amounting to 140,000 pounds of TNT hard to picture in the belly of a B2.
One enough fot Tehran ?
Vote YES: Lake Iran
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