"WaltBJ" wrote in message
om...

As for a real continental air defense mission - our conclusion was you
weren't coming back. Either the prompt radiation from a TNW was going
to get you or you were going to have to stop the bomber no matter
what. BTW a 20 MT going off 60 miles away from a fighter at 40000
gives the crew something like 3000 rad right now. Air up there is too
skinny to soak up the gammas.

That's assuming the nuclear weapon on the bomber explodes
at 40,000 ft too right ?

After all the USA and USSR both dropped high yield air burst weapons
without killing the bomber crews

Keith