Discussion in an Executive Session of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy about the possibility of the H-bomb, September 1949.pic.twitter.com/hf0kGbiGkE
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I really like the idea of a railroad train as a thermonuclear delivery mechanism as an aside. It makes for some amusement trying to contemplate how that would work, exactly.pic.twitter.com/KHcMP1BLUj
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The MX Rail Garrison basing mode... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacekeeper_Rail_Garrison …pic.twitter.com/HW1OazCxft
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Right, but as a warhead without a missile it's a bit different...
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As a further aside, MIT physicist Kosta Tsipis wrote in his 1983 book “Arsenal: Understanding Weapons in the Nuclear Age,” that 1 megaton of TNT would fill freight train 300 miles long. Traveling at 50 miles per hour, it would take a full 6 hours to pass in front of you.
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As in, a railway gun + atomic cannon combo? Or, "move to the target with a nuke in a train car"?
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It would be really useful for signalling intent. Building a railroad to an adversary’s capital would be a serious step on the escalation ladder.
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I'm pretty sure it involves being catapulted through John Travolta.
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A box car consigned to be delivered to a siding in Moscow…
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If someone said that today, they'd try to cover the blunder saying something about mass drivers or railguns.
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The British Hurricane operation in NW
, their first-ever nuclear device, was to test a sucker punch attack using a ship on the Thames River, in Whitehall, seat of national government.
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The Soviets long implemented train cars as nuclear weapons delivery systems. An example is their SS-24 Scalpel (NATO code)/RT-23 Molodets ICBM--with 10 MIRVed 550 kt-each warheads--delivered from both silos and train cars. Another is the Russian RS-27 Barguzin, its successor.
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On rails, I would assume.
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If Amtrak, not well.
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Would have to be gauge-changing to get into the USSR.
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FedEx
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