I said a 700 tonne bim.
Posted on 04/01/2006 11:48:01 AM PST by strategofr
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.
"We also have -- are you ready for this - a 700-tonne explosively formed charge that we're going to be putting in a tunnel in Nevada," he said.
"And that represents to us the largest single explosive that we could imagine doing conventionally to solve that problem," he said.
The aim is to measure the effect of the blast on hard granite structures, he said.
"If you want to model these weapons, you want to know from a modeling point of view what is the ideal best condition you could ever set up in a conventional weapon -- what's the best you can do.
"And this gets at the best point you could get on a curve. So it allows us to predict how effective these kinds of weapons ... would be," he said.
He said the Russians have been notified of the test, which is scheduled for the first week of June at the Nevada test range.
"We're also making sure that Las Vegas understands," Tegnelia said.
We did something like this before the Iraq war.
MOAB
PSYOPS in action...
A pre test, then on to Iran for the final's??
Also, a conventional test of the effects of a low-yield nuclear bunker buster...
Cool! I'm going to Vegas in the first week of June! Excellent timing! I hope I have my camera ready. So far my biggest has been several 800lbs dropped in New Mexico about 25 years ago.
MOAB
PSYOPS in action...
This isn't a deliverable bomb. It's a test of concept for nuclear bunker busters without having to detonate a nuclear test device. Supposedly the small nuclear war heads will be remanufactured triggers for old H-bombs.
Mother nature has already shown us that it doesn't take much to make buildings fall down in Iran. Straw and camel dung bricks can't handle much of a vibration... We can drop rocks and it will take out a medium sized Iranian city.
First week in June? Mrs. Chandler and I will be celebrating our 30th. anniversary. We were planning on staying in a cabin in the woods, but maybe I could talk here into... no, she'd never go for it.
I would say that Iran should pay close attention, but I know that's a waste of time. Even if they did they are too stupid to realise what it means.
Hope this isn't close to the proposed and nearly constructed nuclear waste site. Might do it some damage.
I would say that Iran should pay close attention, but I know that's a waste of time. Even if they did they are too stupid to realise what it means.
Hey honey, I hear they're going to have fireworks near Las Vegas. "That would be cool..."
Good luck! LOL
I said a 700 tonne bim.
I can't hear you, your talking too close to the fen.
If I wanted to test a .7 kiloton Nuclear Penetrator without having a radiation problem, how would I do it?
A Mucho Grande MOAB, huh.
I can think of a better place.
Would that be an American ton or a British tonne?
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