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| Topic | What's the smallest possible man-made nuke? |
| captpackrat 08/16/20 1:41:39 PM #7: | WhiskeyDisk posted... That sounds...too close to the nuclear blast to be safe for the forces deploying the weapon. Maybe I'm wrong , but I can't see a real strategic value to radiating something close enough to where your own force may end up being pushed into the fallout zone.The weapon yield was only 10-20 tons so that's not a terribly big explosion for a nuke, similar to a large conventional bomb like the Cloudmaker, Daisy Cutter, or MOAB. The main danger from it was radiation, which was instantly lethal (10,000 rem) to about 500 feet and "probably lethal" (600 rem) out to 1/4 mile. Radiation would fall off rapidly from there, and fallout probably wouldn't be too bad either. Just pray you don't have a misfire, and keep the wind at your back. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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