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![]() "Henry J Cobb" wrote Jim Yanik wrote: Deep-Buried command and control centers,WMD manufacturing/storage facilities.(bio-chem,not solely nuclear) How would you know which tunnels to nuke? http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...rk-tunnels.htm Even if the Pentagon were to develop nuclear "bunker-busters" -- relatively small bombs that penetrate the surface before exploding -- the United States would be hard-pressed to use them successfully without knowing which of the thousands of bunkers scattered throughout the country were the correct targets. More to the point, how do you know_where_the bunker is. A few years ago, AvWeek had a brief note that Swedish and German companies sold hard-rock boring equipment that could cut a 20 foot shaft at the rate of 200 feet a day. It doesn't take many months before for the circle of uncertainty starting from where the bore hole starts gets beyond the lethal distance of _any_ bunker buster, nuclear or not. The cratering radius of a 300KT (B-61) nuclear explosion in rock is about 900 feet. If the bunker is more than 10X that distance (45 days drilling), a maximum yeild explosion is unlikely to collapse the bunker. Without very good HUMINT indeed, you aren't going to know the location of the target with enough precision to kill it. |
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