[Carry_Okie]

Have you ever contemplated the long term effects down wind from a 25MT bomb detonated at a depth of about 200 feet in the Persian Gulf?

In terms of the half life of the radiation, it wouldn't make a damned bit of difference.

[DJ Taylor]

I find it interesting that the only thing you seem to want to discuss about my post is my conjecture that the Middle East could become radio active for a half life of thousands of years. I hope you know there are nuclear weapons capable of doing this.

I thank you for your gracious recommendation of books that could increase my knowledge of nuclear weapons, but I already know all I want to know about these weapons and I didn't gain this knowledge from books. (Well, maybe a few classified manuals.) After Vietnam, I served most of the 1970s on U.S. Army Special Forces SADM Teams and I came away with a good knowledge of these weapons and their capability.

Good day, Sir. I'm done with this thread.