Nuclear News you *can* use--

Self-bump... coulda sworn this would draw comments & maybe fire.... ah, well!

South Africa:

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Pinging you here J. Thought the links might interest you.

Thanks for the ping- I was thinking this post was dead as a doornail!

I think most people here in the states just don't think it could happen backhoe.I think it is a distinct possibility in the not so distant future.Then again most people don't vote and don't even know who their congress critter is either.BTW thanks for all the links.

Thanks for looking.... you may have a point. I had an "interesting" chat with one of clinton's few butt-boys around here who was claiming that a nuclear hit on King's Bay ( about 25 miles south ) "wouldn't affect us because it would only have a 40 kilometer blast radius....."

40 km. is roughly 24 miles; he seemed convinced blast & heat effects stop abruptly....

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Nuclear Nightmares

Weapons of mass destruction - NOT! Gordon Prather explains the truth about 'dirty' nukes

bumping for later.

Thanks for the bump- this was one of my less-popular postings!

Note this well:

-Tables on nuclear tests worldwide--

...over 500 megatons of nuclear weapons were detonated in tests worldwide.

Thanks for this and other links!

Thanks for looking- you know, it beats me how a post like this on a deadly serious subject gets so little comment, while some I have done frivolously- like "Deep Mines- Portals to Hell?"- draws numerous replies, links, flames, jokes, etc.


Russia's scattered tactical arms a temptation for terrorists

What kind of yield are you predicting, 40 Km is in the multi-megaton range. You are talking 15 to 20 megatons, this is a very large weapon, who are you proposing is going to have access to such a large device, that poses an immediate threat. Clearly the Russians and Chinese have build, or could build, such a device. The largest deployed weapon the US had, as I recall anyway, was the W53 device for the Titan II, weighing in at 6300 lbs, it had a published yield of 9 megatons.

Well, my understanding of the tactical warheads mentioned is that they are in the kiloton or sub-kiloton range. Great for cracking Hoover dam, or toppling a few skyscrapers, but certainly not a city buster. ( Make a hell of a mess, however... )

The biggest weapon I can recall offhand was the Soviet test shot of a 58-68 megaton back in the 1960's-- I don't have the info handy, but I believe I put some links to it in some of the other stuff I've posted here... like that India-Pakistan post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710830/posts

U.S. Air Force: Israel has 400 nukes, building naval force

World Tribune | 7/4/02