Abysmal ignorance? What ARE you talking aboout? You are one of the wittiest, knowledgeable gentlemen I have seen.
LOL. Arc Light is a term familiar to those who witnessed them bring the North Vietnamese scrambling to Paris for peace talks on the condition they would be ended. Nixon made the mistake of ending them. The bombs used were 750 or 1000 pounds .Each B52 could carry about 30x1000 pound bombs and often as many as 27 bombers were used successively over the target. If the bombs did not destroy deep bunkers, enemy soldiers still remained dazed for hours afterwards. The bombs were released from an altitude so high that the bombers could not be seen, and the effect was to literally plow up large rectangular areas of ground to a depth of about 50 feet with concussions so strong and rhythmic that they often drove the enemy insane.
Here's the dose:
Arc Light bombing mission impacting.
Operation Arc Light was the code name given to the use of B-52 strategic bombers in Southeast Asia.
In 1964 U.S. and South Vietnamese intelligence sources began to detect regular North Vietnamese Army (NVA) units operating in base areas inside the Republic of Vietnam. The U.S. military evaluated ways to counter this development, and the resulting proposals leaned heavily on the concepts of air mobility and airpower.
After World War II, even into the nuclear era of Massive Retaliation, the Air Force had maintained an interest in the use of heavy bombers in a conventional role. U.S. Air Force planners recognized that it would take massive amounts of concentrated firepower to disrupt troop concentrations in jungle areas. As the war in Southeast Asia intensified, the Air Force looked to the Strategic Air Command bomber fleet to provide this massed firepower and selected the B-52 Stratofortress for this role.