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Thread #59961   Message #958433
Posted By: Raedwulf
23-May-03 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: The truth about nuclear bunker busters
Subject: RE: BS: The truth about nuclear bunker busters
What are you getting at Donuel?

So they're "a bit more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb"? So what? Little Boy is to modern nukes what the Brown Bess musket is to modern infantry rifles. The comparison is valueless & irrelevant.

"The propaganda that they only clear out caves and bunkers.." isn't a lie. The bunker busters are designed to bust bunkers, & that's what they get used for. If the US wanted to take out Paris, it'd use a nuke appropriate to the target...

...And probably a lot more powerful, because "if one hit the Eiffel tower it would level Paris to the suburbs" is almost certainly untrue. If the average BB is only "a bit more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb", I very much doubt it would "level" that much in the extraordinarily unlikely event that such a weapon were ever used airburst (Note: LB detonated at a consideraably higher altitude than LB). I suspect that there would be many buildings still standing (though no people, unless they were really unlucky...).

If the US wants to "level" a city, it will use a warhead of multi-MegaTon yield (LB was estimated to be only around 15KT), or (more likely) a multi-warhead weapon of considerably lower overall yield.

If you want to know more about Hiroshima, try this Japanese site.

I am against nuclear weapons (as any sane person ought to be, on the whole). I am also against people spreading misinformation (ditto).