A hopefully useless article on nuclear civil defense, quoting my colleague @RadioFreeTomhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-to-survive-a-nuclear-bomb-in-dc-yes-really/article/2637336 …
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Very very roughly, thermal is inverse-square, blast a bit better than inverse-cube , and radiation a bit less than inverse-cube, I think (?)
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Thermal scales better at very high yields than blast. If you want an argument for "very very big bombs," thermal effect better than blast.
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Also, what exactly would be the target for 50-100 MT? "Colorado?" I mean, it was a bomb in search of a use.
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Well, WW2 Japan tried (and failed) several methods of starting mass forest fires in the Pacific NW.... But yeah.
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