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re: What If A Nuke Goes Off In Los Angeles
Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:57 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:57 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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I think our generation was conditioned in childhood to know that we would have it worse than previous generations. It was a unique era that we grew up in and I feel like most people our age are more realistic and resilient because
I didn't expect to see 18 years of age. Cold War, duck and cover.,,
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:59 pm to Alleman
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I ran the program using the "Castle Bravo" bomb, said to be the largest bomb in the US inventory.
Castle Bravo was the codename for the test of the first dry fuel H bomb, and at 15 MT, it had more than double the expected yield due to a reaction they failed to consider. I believe the most powerful production bomb was "only" 9 MT. Naughty Bravo dumped fallout on some Japanese fishermen, and needless to say, the Japs were not amused.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:03 pm to dawgfan24348
Interesting
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:08 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I got Knoxville, TN in the middle of the barners/Vols game.
Good times.
Good times.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:32 pm to dawgfan24348
So if I'm sitting outside in Covington and Tsar Bomba detonates in downtown New Orleans, I'll get third degree burns, etc.?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:49 pm to Havoc
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So if I'm sitting outside in Covington and Tsar Bomba detonates in downtown New Orleans, I'll get third degree burns, etc.?
Yep.
It goes as far as Folsom and Grand Isle.
The Tsar is literally the ugly and most dangerous side of human ingenuity. Thank god it was too impractical for it to be ever used in war conflict.
There were bombs almost as powerful as that in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I can't imagine what that would've looked like if JFK had fricked it up.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:50 pm to dawgfan24348
Thank You!
This is fun as hell..
This is fun as hell..
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:53 pm to Sentrius
Got to 14M with tsar bomba over Tokyo. Is that the record?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 9:59 pm to pensacola
quote:I got 18 million and pretty sure I created Godzilla
Got to 14M with tsar bomba over Tokyo. Is that the record?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:10 pm to Sentrius
Went to wikipedia to read up on Tsar Bomba. I found some terrifying stuff
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The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 kilometres (28 mi) away from ground zero. When detonation occurred, the Tu-95V fell one kilometre from its previous altitude because of the shock wave of the bomb.
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Although simplistic fireball calculations predicted the fireball would hit the ground, the bomb's own shock wave reflected back and prevented this. The fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane and was visible at almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) away from where it ascended. The mushroom cloud was about 64 kilometres (40 mi) high (over seven times the height of Mount Everest), which meant that the cloud was above the stratosphere and well inside the mesosphere when it peaked.
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One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometres (170 mi). The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero.
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Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at even greater distances, breaking windows in Norway and Finland.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:16 pm to dawgfan24348
The rams would instantly regret there decision
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:19 pm to dawgfan24348
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What If A Nuke Goes Off In Los Angeles
Some innocent, good people would be lost, but on the whole, the World profits and is better off.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:36 pm to dawgfan24348
Jack Bauer will stop them don't worry
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:54 pm to dawgfan24348
I dropped the Hiroshima bomb in the middle of Wyoming and killed no one FWIW
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:25 pm to BayouBengals03
You're like the pilot at the end of Outbreak
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:29 pm to The Boat
I'm wondering how a nuke not far from the ground would be affected by steep topography.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:31 pm to dawgfan24348
Then the Rams would certainly regret having moved
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:43 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:This happened at Nagasaki with Fat Man, the city is located in a valley that goes down to the water and they missed the target by over a mile because of cloud cover over the aiming point. The bomb damage assessment folks think where (relative ground elevation and lat/long) it detonated minimized it's potential damage manyfold. It still killed 35-40k immediately and more than double that eventually over time.
I'm wondering how a nuke not far from the ground would be affected by steep topography.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 12:01 am
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:46 pm to dawgfan24348
So if it kills a bunch of those racists in Hollywood that would be good, right?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 11:49 pm to Alleman
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Fat Man was an atomic bomb. Atomic bombs are significantly less powerful than the modern hydrogen bombs.
Bombs in the fifties and sixties had to be powerful because targeting was imprecise. Better accuracy means that paradoxically, modern bombs can be smaller. The standard US W88 warhead has a yield of about 500 kilotons. Much bigger than the Hiroshima bomb, but nowhere near as big as the megabombs of the early Cold War.
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