[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.

[Domestic Church]

Thank you JM...That's about what I figured (but didn't trust after 25 years of memory dust) with the 10 megaton but many here on the east coast like myself could be in radiation overlap areas depending upon weather patterns. If we get a noreaster coming up the Atlantic on top of something like this the founding 13 colonies will be mostly toast.(How's that for erasing history?) And many homes have basements here that aren't completely underground because they're built into foothills and rolling mountains.

What's your take on this Russian exercise? You have a level head. Are we all over reacting? What aspect in this would be the red flag to head for the hills?