@wellerstein chart is bogus? A 10 GIGA tonne weapon detonated 300 MILES up? Don't think so...
On a clear day, a 10,000 Mt bomb, at the right altitude, could incinerate an area with a radius of +320 miles. Fun.pic.twitter.com/nXuDkgQPBs
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@Hawkeyethenooo Not bogus, just not well-known — US gov't scientists did seriously research gigaton weapons in 1950s and 1960s.
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@wellerstein yes, I've heard about it, but hasn't it (scalability) been largely discredited since? Be interested to see source link, please. -
@Hawkeyethenooo When I am not on a train I will send you the link. Re: scaling, the blast doesn't scale well, but thermal supposedly does.
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@wellerstein Wouldn't a burst optimized for EMP be more effective strategically? -
@Pyotr__Stolypin You don't need gigaton weapons for EMP. And this research is just exploring the possibilities.
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what is Passell 1963? There's no chart in Glasstone&Dolan or EM-1 that look anything like this graph.
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Passel 1963: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/404590.pdf … ; the screenshotted graph is from Rogers & Miller 1963: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a383988.pdf …
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@wellerstein I'm not sure about what do you find terrifying, if that is just fun! ;-) -
@drocera They never built things this big — for a variety of reasons — so it is fun. The really scary stuff is what they did build. :-) -
@wellerstein Good enough ;-)
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@wellerstein You have a bizarre sense of the word "fun." But I am betting you know that. I might suggest, however, "staggering."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein I wonder what one of those things could do to a polar ice cap.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein would such weapons have had a much higher yield-to-weight ratio than normal-sized bombs?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein +1 on sharing some material on your talk; blog post maybe?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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