You’re just talking firecrackers until you get into the megaton range, preferably multi megaton.
Anonymous
August 16, 2015 4:17 pm
We target enemy weapons at ground zero so our warheads are low kt but cause a lot of fallout. Russia targets cities and are large kt that explode about 1 mile high and have little fallout. Our missile and bomber crews must get weapons arming and use from the POTUS and I believe we can be decapitated; our enemies will win the war.
SSS
August 16, 2015 7:03 pm
“Our missile and bomber crews must get weapons arming and use from the POTUS and I believe we can be decapitated; our enemies will win the war.”
—-Anon
1) Russia must do the same thing from Putin. 2) Our Ohio-class nuke subs, the 3rd leg of our nuclear triad, are far superior to anything else on the planet. 3) “Our enemies” in a nuclear war is a club of one, Russia. China will not go to that dance, mainly because it can’t in any meaningful way except get blasted with no return. 4) Russia cannot dismiss minor nuclear threats such as Great Britain and France, both of which can strike targets in Russia.
Russia understands these factors. Conclusion: there will be no nuclear war.
unit472
August 16, 2015 7:38 pm
I was a boy living outside Washington, D.C during the Cuban Missile Crisis. You paid a lot of attention to yield and blast effects back then. As I recall our house was 13 miles as the crow flies from the geographic center of Washington. This meant I would survive a 1 megaton atomic air burst in our brick house ( if the bomb hit dead center on target). My father, who worked in D.C would not be so fortunate.Duck and cover would work in my elementary school too! If I were outside when the bomb went off I would have burns and possibly be blinded. These were a child’s calculations.
The local hardware store had a family bombshelter on display. It was a metal cylinder you could bury in the back yard and it had a smaller metal access cylinder with a hatch on it to climb into it. Inside was a hand cranked air purification system, two bunks on each side that folded down and storage lockers for emergency rations. I urged my father to buy one because… well it was like a tree
fort only underneath the ground. The grim reality of living underground in a tiny space with my sister and parents eating canned beans waiting for the radiation to subside to tolerable levels didn’t really enter my mine or what the world would look like when we emerged.
Westcoaster
August 16, 2015 8:01 pm
My very first client in my current business of search engine marketing was for the website of a company that manufactures and sells turn-key fallout shelters.
I remember one day during the Cuban missile crisis when I was about 10, all the Radio stations except the 2 Conelrad stations at 640 and 1240 signed off the air in the middle of the day to “test” the system. Scary times. We had “duck and cover” drills where we would line up against the concrete block walls of the hallways in the d&c pose. This was also the drill for tornados. I was really gross if the person in front of you farted, just sayin’.
I worked for a Radio station in SC once that was one of the “primary” stations in the EANS system. It had an underground room beneath the transmitter building that had civil defense supplies and a small mix board and basic studio gear. It was all the used shit they normally would throw away. Upstairs on a stand was a 289 Ford engine coupled to a generator. The exhaust was vented out of the bldg and it ran on bottle gas. We used to fire it up once a month to make sure it still worked. I’ll bet it’s way out of service or maybe even removed by now.
You’re just talking firecrackers until you get into the megaton range, preferably multi megaton.
We target enemy weapons at ground zero so our warheads are low kt but cause a lot of fallout. Russia targets cities and are large kt that explode about 1 mile high and have little fallout. Our missile and bomber crews must get weapons arming and use from the POTUS and I believe we can be decapitated; our enemies will win the war.
“Our missile and bomber crews must get weapons arming and use from the POTUS and I believe we can be decapitated; our enemies will win the war.”
—-Anon
1) Russia must do the same thing from Putin. 2) Our Ohio-class nuke subs, the 3rd leg of our nuclear triad, are far superior to anything else on the planet. 3) “Our enemies” in a nuclear war is a club of one, Russia. China will not go to that dance, mainly because it can’t in any meaningful way except get blasted with no return. 4) Russia cannot dismiss minor nuclear threats such as Great Britain and France, both of which can strike targets in Russia.
Russia understands these factors. Conclusion: there will be no nuclear war.
I was a boy living outside Washington, D.C during the Cuban Missile Crisis. You paid a lot of attention to yield and blast effects back then. As I recall our house was 13 miles as the crow flies from the geographic center of Washington. This meant I would survive a 1 megaton atomic air burst in our brick house ( if the bomb hit dead center on target). My father, who worked in D.C would not be so fortunate.Duck and cover would work in my elementary school too! If I were outside when the bomb went off I would have burns and possibly be blinded. These were a child’s calculations.
The local hardware store had a family bombshelter on display. It was a metal cylinder you could bury in the back yard and it had a smaller metal access cylinder with a hatch on it to climb into it. Inside was a hand cranked air purification system, two bunks on each side that folded down and storage lockers for emergency rations. I urged my father to buy one because… well it was like a tree
fort only underneath the ground. The grim reality of living underground in a tiny space with my sister and parents eating canned beans waiting for the radiation to subside to tolerable levels didn’t really enter my mine or what the world would look like when we emerged.
My very first client in my current business of search engine marketing was for the website of a company that manufactures and sells turn-key fallout shelters.
I remember one day during the Cuban missile crisis when I was about 10, all the Radio stations except the 2 Conelrad stations at 640 and 1240 signed off the air in the middle of the day to “test” the system. Scary times. We had “duck and cover” drills where we would line up against the concrete block walls of the hallways in the d&c pose. This was also the drill for tornados. I was really gross if the person in front of you farted, just sayin’.
I worked for a Radio station in SC once that was one of the “primary” stations in the EANS system. It had an underground room beneath the transmitter building that had civil defense supplies and a small mix board and basic studio gear. It was all the used shit they normally would throw away. Upstairs on a stand was a 289 Ford engine coupled to a generator. The exhaust was vented out of the bldg and it ran on bottle gas. We used to fire it up once a month to make sure it still worked. I’ll bet it’s way out of service or maybe even removed by now.