[C19fan]

1,000 foot tidal wave??? How many megatons would that require?

[Red Badger]

Not as much as you would think.........................

[17th Miss Regt]

1,000 foot tidal wave??? How many megatons would that require?

That and the radiation claim are both preposterous.

[DoughtyOne]

The fallacy of that is on a number of levels.

As you state, the megatonage would have to be yuge. Then you'd have to consider the unintended consequences. Tsunamis aren't exact targetable.

You set off a thousand food tsunami in one place, you've just started 500ft, 300ft, 100ft tsunamis in other places.

China has a habit of saying some of the most outlandish things, and now it seems Russia has caught the itch.

Baloney.

After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.

Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of: Tijera_Slim

[OldMissileer]

1,000 foot tidal wave??? How many megatons would that require?

More than a single device could create.

There is a physical limit to the number of stages that can be used successfully in a thermonuclear device and they cannot create enough force to do what this article claims.

[piytar]

About a gigaton. This is propaganda.

[American in Israel]

Offshore Florida it would be easy as its only 200 deep for over 100 miles, a subsurface burst would be concentrated in shoving a lot of water sideways. Florida would be toast as it is only a huge sandbar. On the west coast would be a lot different matter, the continental shelf drops odd propitiously and the shoreline is mountainous.

The use of nukes to make tidalwaves is much more a form of geological layout than nucliar yield.

As a side note Fukushima might be the best modern example of such an experiment. The seismograpic records indicate a possible dual warhead offshore.

[SuperLuminal]

Makes me think about a famous surf-boarding scene from a classic novel.

[SuperLuminal]

Makes me think about a famous surf-boarding scene from a classic novel.