Posted on 12/01/2012 10:40:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
Neutrons bombs don't contaminate an area for generations, or for centuries. That's the whole point. Drop the neutron bomb. Kill the people. But leave the buildings intact so people can move in and repopulate the place.
No, It would be a very unpleasent place to be (for about a second), then not so much.
The whole idea is the Enhanced Radiation Warhead is a prompt radiation wave of fast neutrons which sweeps through everything, armour, concrete, rocks, wood, flesh and delivers a lethal rad dose to anything living, leaving the area unradded and accessible to your followup troops to seize control.
It is totally not suitable for quarantining a region.
theres nothing there worthy of such a bomb. and kill which people? the talib are in the mountains and caves and would likely not even notice such an event.
you’d destroy kabul or kandahar? for what?
I always like the concept of the nutron bomb
Kill everything living and leave the realty intact ... return and clear the enemy corpses in a couple of days
it even kills roaches
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You need big fusion devices for this, not n-bombs.
An idiotic idea for several reasons, not the least of which is the technical ineptitude of the subject. No one has adequately explained (to me anyway) why we are even there. Oil pipeline, control and profit from narcotics? Bin Laden is supposedly dead and you’re never going to “win the hearts and minds” over there. And googling a photo of the moron that said this shows a bloated old limey probably with colored servants that serve him tea at three that would probably order troops to open up with enfield .303’s on a crowd of unarmed women and children in another era. I say leave them to their goats and poppies, but otherwise quarantine them from the west through adequate immigration enforcement, and security intelligence. Neutron bomb, gimme a break.
Some ERRB (Enhanced Radiation/Reduced Blast) warheads would be the perfect solution to the Palestinian problem in Gaza and the West Bank.
So how do we get all liberals in the same place at the same time?
Huh? I didn’t say I would do it. I was just stating the rationale for such a weapon. John Gilbert seems to think it would contaminate mountain passes and prevent the Taliban or other hostile forces from infiltrating across the border. But that’s not true, and it’s not why the bomb was invented in the first place. Not even close. It’d be totally useless for that purpose.
I’m surprised that someone who was Minister of Defense doesn’t have a better understanding of the thing. But then he is in the Labour Party. Explains a lot. What a bunch of idiots. Libs everywhere are complete bumbling idiots.
I wonder what President Jarrett and White House spokesperson Steve Dunham think about this?
McArthur suggested creating a radioactive cordon across Korea to contain the norks. Of course, it was vetoed.
The easy solution would be to poison the poppy fields. They, and US drug interests, are driving the idiocy as much as islam. Oh, and erase the whole Bush family, as well as the Sauds. This is tailor-made for genetic plague, which can also be used to get rid of the poppies.
IMHO, A good idea. Jihadists could be sent to Allah and the less crazed could live in the intact structures afterward..
Yes, after years of stupid things, McArthur was finally given the boot when he went too far on nukes.
Yep, ever since 1945 the US has been doing acrobatics on how to avoid inflicting casualties while the russians always saw nuclear conflict as winnable.
Now the US is all but gone, and Russia remains. And you have a muslim in the oval office. Helped there by we-all-know-who.
Success.
Well done!! My Friend. I always go to google images to get a quick take on someone I never hear of.
Where have you been my all seeing JB?
I agree.. as I understood it, the neutron bomb was specifically designed for rapid depopulation, but preservation of the infrastructure for later occupation. It might not be optimal for the area in the border regions, but a few Pakistani cities could use some cleansing. When the liberals and their Soviet allies referred to it as the “capitalist bomb,” that was too much for Carter, who unilaterally killed the program.
Yes, Carter killed the program but Reagan started it back up in 1981. What the end production was I suppose is anyone’s guess but our great leader obamao will probably have the devices turned into plowshares, er, I mean, solar batteries.
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