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This is a terrible article. > If the bomb was detonated above London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, it would wipe out a huge chunk of the capital and burn people as fa
by sevensor 9y ago
This is a terrible article.
> If the bomb was detonated above London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, it would wipe out a huge chunk of the capital and burn people as far away as Vauxhall.
First of all, we're not going to use it on London. Second, they're playing fast and loose with the word "test." No detonations have been involved. I couldn't tell from the article, but it seems pretty unlikely that actual warheads had anything at all to do with the reported exercises.
- dingaling 9y agoIndeed. Since it's an awful UK newspaper I think we can call this article 'a load of bollocks' in the local vernacular. The point of the B-61 Mod 12 is deep-penetration of buried bunkers, not mass countervalue strikes against populations. And at its maximum yield of 50kT it is an order of magnitude less powerful than, say, a Trident warhead which is turn is a magnitude less than what was common in the 1960s. Sometimes I think that living through the Cold War gave people a sense of proportion. My home town of Belfast was to be hit by multiple > 1MT warheads and that was just a secondary city with docks.
- dogma1138 9y agoMetro.co.uk isn’t the newspaper that would be https://www.metro.news https://www.metro.news. They were separated because the quality of the online content targeted by the parent company was below the standard of even a British tabloid and the editorial team was not having it.
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