And the rest of the world would just sit around and watch? If we
unilaterally used nuclear weapons 1st against anyone, the entire world would
be united against us. The top priority of every country would be to get
their own nuclear arsenal to stop any similar attack on them. In short
order, you'd have a nuclear arms race that would dwarf anything we've ever
seen.

It's amazing to me the inability of people to anticipate even the most
obvious secondary effects of what they advocate.

Mike Schumann

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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They were dirty bombs that used a large amount of uranium
and or plutonium, only a small part was actually fisioned,
but it was all part of the high energy fallout. The bombs
were large and as you said, were air burst at about 2,000
AGL.
A ground penetration bomb was not possible at the time and
an air burst maximized the destructive radius. Today we can
make a bomb that will detonate several hundred feet
underground with minimal ejection of debris.

I would expect that only a few such bombs would be used,
most bombs would be conventional. Oil fields and terminals
would not likely be targeted.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
...
| On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:30:24 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| Japan has two cities that were bombed with very dirty
bombs
| [because they were so inefficient and large].
|
| Not entirely true, Jim. They were air-burst bombs *in
order that*
| there would be a minimum of radioactive debris.
|
| Had Little Boy and Fat Man burst at ground level, the
situation in
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki would not have been nearly so mild.
|
| - all the best, Dan Ford
|
| Wikipedia: the belief that 10,000 monkeys playing at
| 10,000 keyboards can create a reference work