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To: hellbender
20MT = 20 million tons. Something that could basically take out the Baltimore-Washington area or lay waste to the entire New York Metropolitan area.
80 posted on 02/02/2008 7:16:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Go see Cloverfield. It's good!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
20MT = 20 million tons

Yes, I considered that might be what the poster meant, and shied away from the possibility that he really meant 20 megatons, which means a thermonuclear warhead like those designed to take out entire Soviet cities. The idea that an H-bomb is more reasonable than having special forces, "boots on the ground," take out Osama is absurd. Even a megaton weapon requires targeting, which can only be achieved by "boots on the ground" anyway. We couldn't even locate the terrorist strongholds in Iraq until our large ground forces stabilized things enough that the populace dared to squeal on the terrorists, allowing them to be targeted.

163 posted on 02/03/2008 7:21:22 AM PST by hellbender
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