Posted on 06/13/2018 2:14:58 PM PDT by NRx
That is a lot, unless these nuclear terrorists are shockingly incompetent. Are they hiring real nuclear physicists and engineers to design their weapon or just Gender Studies majors?
Little Boy contained 64 kg of HEU. Only about 1 kg fissioned. That's the nature of a gun type design.
Can the effect be multiplied with hydrogen?
Thanks.
I do not see any casualty results. I see very clear the area if ionization radiation or other blast consequences.
No casualty data, though.
Maybe I’m missing it.
Thanks again.
I found the casualty option and yes, it is and I thought.
It’s not including estimated casualties from radiation syndrome.
It is very good in pinpointing the area of interest with respect to different doses, eg
“500 rem radiation dose; without medical treatment, there can be expected between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects alone. Dying takes between several hours and several weeks.”
You know that Staten Island voted for Trump, right?
Staten Island would be collateral damage
Little Boy was 70 years ago. Today they have laptop computers that can do the numerical methods computations, plus they have all the information that has leaked out over time. They should be able to do much better with far less uranium.
Use nuke2
As would a few FRiends...
The difficulty would be creating the bomb so it cannot be detected. I saw one Harpoon scenario where an Iranian sub was trying to a nuclear mine in Boston Hahbuh
It is far worse in California where there are many many FRiends
A nuclear attack on America, including NYC, was discussed in the novel Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.
It went into detail about salvage ops in the city.
Salvors were precluded from receiving any type of formal medical treatment due to the high rads they received. They were stripping all the buildings of valuable copper wire, which was no longer produced.
It is an odd book, written from an early 1980s sensibility.
I did. Thanks.
I’ll look again at the options.
Strieber wrote some prescient stuff. I remember reading 'Nature's End' in about 1981, wherein his characters carried around a 'laptop computer' that could access other computers and facilitate communication on a vast, global network. The antagonist was a guy named 'Singh' IIRC, who's forces could track your access to this network and locate you. I read that and Warday back then.
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