[jimtorr]

Explosivley impressive. Thanks. Hopefully it will dampen the eagerness of some to use these things. I do support the use if someone unleashes a mass bio or chem or radiological attack on the U.S., if we can figure out who done it. I won't like it, but it will be necessary.

I never knew how small the micro nukes are, or that the B61 was capable of a yield under 1kt. These would be the bombs to convert into bunker-busters, I would think. I wonder if they were ever made?

[Cobra64]

"Bunker busters, "Bunker busters, Now that is the solution, Ya-Hoo!" (sarcasm)

They have limited capability to "bust" through more than about 20 feet of concrete much less than thousands of feet of granite. Look at a topo map of Afghanistan. Those living in caves, the cave dwellers there don't live in dessert sand dunes with a slab of concrete over their heads (some might).

Bunker busters will have limited capabilty in Afghanistan from the enemy we were routing out in the Gulf War. This is different terrain... Rhetorical question: would a bunker buster be as effective on killing an enemy submarine submerged at 1,000 feet as a torpedo fired from one of our subs at a similar depth? If you disagree, then we don't need subs, just more BUNKER BUSTERS!