The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91224   Message #1733744
Posted By: beardedbruce
05-May-06 - 10:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Again?
Subject: RE: BS: Again?
Sorry, Bobert, you do not have the correct facts.

Total number of Israeli bombs- on the order of 400 +_200 So, lets use 500 for overkill.

Average yield- est. about 140 kt each ( No fuion devices)

Area of 80% destruction for 140 KT bomb

"Another is how the devices are used. The radius of destruction of nuclear devices is actually quite limited; this is a natural outgrowth of working on the inverse square law. Even with one of the "big" 1 megaton weapons, its fury is largely spent by the time the blast wave has reached ten miles from center. The smaller devices have lesser radii although the workings of the cube power rule mean that those radii are not as small as the difference in explosive power suggests. "

Let us say about 6 miles, given a firestorm with NO attempt to put it out.


So, YOU claim that Iran has less than 500 x pi x 9 square miles of area? ( about 14,000 square miles- )


"With an area of 1,648,000 square kilometers, Iran ranks sixteenth in size among the countries of the world. Iran is about one-fifth the size of the continental United States, or slightly larger than the combined area of the contiguous states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. "


WRONG AGAIN