"Iranian general: Israel ‘will be destroyed’ if it attacks our nuclear program!"
Posted on 06/23/2012 1:06:45 PM PDT by moonshot925
An airburst is much more destructive than a ground burst because of thermal radiation.
Lets say a 455 kiloton W88 warhead was detonated 6,000 feet above the Capital Building.
The fireball would be over a mile wide.
People would get third degree burns up to 7 miles away.
People would get second degree burns up to 12 miles away.
There would be millions of casualties from these terrible burns.
Iranian general: Israel ‘will be destroyed’ if it attacks our nuclear program
Decisions, decisions, go for the air burst for maximum destructive effect, or a ground burst for massive fallout effect?
Considering that it’s Iran, I vote for BOTH weapon configurations!
Any one of many possible events could lead to the start of it.
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Israel could use a neutron bomb. We may have limited ourselves, but Israel has not. What better way to get rid of invaders, without destroying the weapons they are using.
Iran better watch out.
It wouldn't take that many cruise missiles.
There's not that much useful stuff in Iran worth destroying.
nuclear facilities, Power generating facilities, oil depots, refineries, ports, communication facilities and of course ALL the ayatollah residences.
"Iranian general: Israel ‘will be destroyed’ if it attacks our nuclear program!"
That’s not the point. A cobalt-salted bomb is SUPPOSED to be used in a ground burst, simply because the resultant cobalt-60 is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger of a radioactive emitter than the usual fallout isotopes. . . you’re not as worried about the blast and thermal, as you are about dropping a serious plume of REALLY deadly fallout. . .
“you’re not as worried about the blast and thermal”
About 50% of the deaths at Hiroshima were from third degree burns.
The thermal radiation is the most deadly part of nuclear weapons.
“Yea, and if the Queen had balls she’d be the King.”
Yes. And if the president had balls—he’d still be a queen.
One last time: the POINT of a “cobalt-salted” weapon, or similar weapon, is to create a far deadlier fallout plume than normally would be expected from a nuclear or atomic detonation of the same size.
I don’t know the exact specifics, and wouldn’t discuss them if I did know them, but the use of such a weapon is PRIMARILY to deny the downwind area for an extended period of time.
The immediate thermal and blast effects are secondary to the designed purpose of such weapons.
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