[Domestic Church]

How do we find out the "pretend" warhead size on these intercontinental missles? We have to get some bearing on what size area will be hit and what area around it will have to be evacuated. There was a map blaster that showed a small scale hit...we need to see the area for a 10 or 25 or 50 kiloton hit.

What size 'oops' do you think we'll get in this hit? Ain't nothing my betadine can do if this is incoming.

Think it's time to start yodeling.

[judicial meanz]

Reference 6199:


If we are talking about the SS-18 SATAN missiles in the Soviet arsenal, they have two types of warheads. The Chinese DF-31 is very similar, so the information is pretty much interchangeable.

Warhead type one is a ten megaton high yield Nuclear Warhead. For effect, you are looking at an approximately 80 mile area of fallout contamination, and the worst effects are in the 0-40 mile ranges.


Warhead type two carries ten independently targeted MIRV's with a yield of approximately 1 MT each. Worst effects are from 0-30 miles, and fallout effects are observable up to 60 miles.

I would figure 100 miles, approximately, in the opposite direction of the prevailing winds would be on the margin of the safe zone.