Indeed. 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-p

Indeed. 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.