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Defiant Pakistan threatens to use nuke
Yahoo News India ^
| 05.30.02
| Press Trust of India
Posted on 05/30/2002 5:50:13 AM PDT by callisto
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Dear Pakistan,
If you use nuclear weapons against India, the whole world will suffer the consequences of fallout and we shall have no choice but to turn your country into a cinder."Quote of the month nomination BUMP
To: angcat
http://www.usdpi.org/Technological%20DP%20Links.htm
Check out this link. There are many others that you can follow from it if you find it interesting.
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05/30/2002 1:05:40 PM PDT
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Cicero5
To: cake_crumb
Thank you. I am honored.
To: Darth Sidious
Haven't seen that flick since '88 but remembered Chuck ranting about "the cobalt bomb" :-) You've seen it more recently than me. I could not recall if Heston was in that one or not. I'm pretty sure that James Franciscus was in it, though. Ah, that good ol' Sunday morning movie fare...
To: callisto
For Reference:
Location |
Size |
Count |
Hiroshima |
15 kiloton |
1 |
|
21 kiloton |
1 |
India |
15-60 kilotons each |
20-60 |
Pakistan |
15-25 kilotons each |
10-30 |
Russia |
3-50 megatons each |
2,000+ |
Fallout effects from Indi-Paki nuke exchange
And
Map-a-Blast
Film Footage of Actual Blasts From a
PBS site:
Operation Cue (500kb) Beginning in 1953 the Federal Civil Defense Adminstration, working with the Atomic Energy Commission, set up an atomic test program to investigate the effects of nuclear weapons on typical American homes and their furnishings. |
Operation Castle (300kb) Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests, was conducted in the Marshall Islands in the spring of 1954. The 15 megaton Bravo detonation was over 1,000 times larger than Hiroshima. |
Layer Cake Design (500kb) In Andrei Sakharov's Layer Cake design, several layers of light and heavy elements were alternated. High explosives surrounding the Layer Cake would be used to implode and ignite the atomic bomb at the center of the device. The atomic explosion would then set off a fusion reaction in the deuterium. |
Operation Cue (300kb) Each home was equipped with refrigerators, typical appliances, the kinds of food one would eat, from baby food to adult food, and were exposed to the blast. |
Operation Castle (100kb) Operation Castle yielded more fallout than any of the other U.S. thermonuclear tests, contaminating military personnel and civilians on nearby islands. |
Camp Desert Rock (900kb) Camp Desert Rock, Nevada - The U.S. military began using smaller blasts to learn how to fight a nuclear war. On April 22, 1952 approximately 2,000 Army personnel conducted maneuvers beneath the mushroom cloud of the 31-kiloton Charlie nuclear detonation. |
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To: Cicero5
The danger of fallout from this is vastly overrated. Sure, it is there, but the real damage is done within the radii of destruction of the fireball itself.
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