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To: Zathras
A 25MT device detonated just inside the Continental shelf could possibly create such an event.

The Tsar Bomb test of 1961 was over 50 MT, and could have been scaled to 100MT.

Weighing 30 tons, it was too big to be transported by air. An unmanned sub, operating as a long range torpedo, could carry a really, really, really big bomb.

29 posted on 11/17/2015 10:19:21 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Tsar Bomba was scaled back because after about 50-60 MT yield the energy produced would be mostly wasted. It was detonated at about 15,000 feet and the fireball touched the ground and the top of the fireball was at the tropopause. A larger bomb could be built but what is the point? It is a very inefficient use of weapon material. There would be little question about who did it until other countries developed the same capability.


44 posted on 11/17/2015 10:34:20 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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