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I agree completely with your sentiment, but I'd like to point out that there are still "multi-megaton hydrogen bombs" aimed at our cities.
by learc83 13y ago
I agree completely with your sentiment, but I'd like to point out that there are still "multi-megaton hydrogen bombs" aimed at our cities.
- Zigurd 13y agoI would check on that. As far as I know, the US no longer stocks any "high yield" nukes, and the same for Russia, or at least a very small fraction of their previous arsenal. Not that a "small" nuke would be any picnic.
- hga 13y agoThere's good reasons for that, unless you're trying to hit a particularly hard target, like the Cheyenne Mountain bunker that's now on "warm standby", really large nukes don't gain you anything, you get diminishing returns as additional heat liberated just radiates back into space. Hitting a modern city with 3 low-centi-ton yield airbursts will do a lot more damage than one megaton class one.