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To: hchutch
If there is a device, and NEST can't findit, and it goes off, then what?

8 miles offshore and surface detonated? Unless it's a really big device, you get a big flash, followed by lots of steam, and some radioactive, vaporized fish, ship parts and cargo parts blowing farther out to sea. Unless the wind shifts. A quick look at the current winds shows it blowing off shore in that area.

460 posted on 09/12/2002 4:48:56 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato; hchutch
If there is a device, and NEST can't findit, and it goes off, then what?

8 miles offshore and surface detonated? Unless it's a really big device, you get a big flash, followed by lots of steam, and some radioactive, vaporized fish, ship parts and cargo parts blowing farther out to sea. Unless the wind shifts. A quick look at the current winds shows it blowing off shore in that area.

I would recommend not looking in that direction the moment it goes off, though.

Oh, and by the way, 8 mi out is still within US territory, and we would probably lose several ships and several hundred guys. Which means that it will be time to turn the perp's turf into a hot, glowing parking lot.

509 posted on 09/12/2002 7:43:36 PM PDT by Stefan Stackhouse
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