Interesting link, just shows the results 1 one of the largest bomb would do. Example. tsar bomb from the USSR. if it went off in bristol newport would get 3rd degree burns it it went off at 100 mrts WOW. just what we never want to see go off NUKEMAP2 by Alex Wellerstein sad but interesting
Remal the thoughts that must cross your mind daily..... lol On the plus side if a 50mt Russian hot boy dropped on Central London then Cambridge would be screwed but appears my town gets away with it
Ha, that's nothing, if that went off in Blackpool the council would put up the poll tax and say it was a grant for regeneration or something.
This might sound and bit weird and strange and I usually keep this to my self but I love these things the power and destruction is immense and something the human race needs to exploit not ignore (as in power generation and associated technology). I would like to see one used in anger may be just a small one before my time is up, I think the ramifications would help the human race to move on, move away from greed, religious confrontation, power and poverty. Mind having said that if someone did press the button I'd probably shit a brick and think what an idiot I am. If you haven't seen Threads give it a go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg
Hmmmm. 'Once the genie's out of the bottle' springs to mind Matt... However, I do agree with you as far as being fascinated by these monsters. Two documentaries worth looking out for, if you've not already seen them are 'Trinity and Beyond' and 'Atomic Film Makers'. The latter follows the American film making unit created just to record nuclear testing and is brilliant.
Anything nuclear is disastrous.Look at the fukushima plant that is leaking radiation into the sea at this very moment.Nuclear bombs need to be wiped out completely.We are the head species on earth but would destroy billions of other different species if we were to just to set one off in anger.There have been so many ways of producing energy that we humans haven't used to date.Most inventions have been either bought up or silenced to keep the oil and fuel companies happy.Lets hope they stop these tyrants (USA)trying to create a war.
I think it would be awful to use one in anger.... But if you do please make ground zero my ex's house
Perhaps like is too strong a word but as Ken put it a fascination as to what the affects on the world would be if one was used today. Obviously the affects on the people targeted would be atrocious and horrific, there are already enough horrific atrocities going on at this very moment somewhere. Would it serve as a permanent reminder that these weapons should be destroyed and never harbored as a 'deterrent' ever in the future or would man be ignorant and stupid enough to believe in their worth to keep a few just in case. And that with the effects of such a device being used with it's obvious destruction would it allow humanity to move away from the current conflict and war behavior we've had since forever. Going by their use in Japan and the renewal of Trident it's clear we haven't yet learnt, what will it take. Wow this is deep I'm going to play COD for some lighter entertainment.
Once upon a time, nuclear proliferation was only in the hands of a few. The big five, I once heard it called. The MAD protocol was in place and everyone in a position to do anything about it, understood it. The brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis proved this. Nut jobs as the US and Soviet governments were, the line in the sand was not crossed. Flawed as both superpowers were, they were both aware of the horrors that a pissing contest would wreak. They had a greater and mutually agreed upon responsibility, not just to their own peoples, but to their own futures. Today, nobody knows where all the fissionable materials that have been produced are any more. The Soviet boomers lie rotting in their docks, their ICBMs long removed but their cores quietly ticking over while decay eats their shields. Blast yield is no longer as important as a low yield dirty bomb dispensed in the jet stream can hold a continent to ransom. And, the fingers on the triggers no longer have the same global responsibility. When West grimaced at East across the Sennelager Plane with massive arsenals at the beck and call, we were much safer than we are now when a rucksack full of Carbon14 can be strapped to a Helium balloon by some religious zealot with a grudge and released anywhere upstream of the infidels...
We will know this has gone very wrong when someone starts a new thread "how devastating can you be" and posts up nuclear strikes and the level of damage and casualties etc they caused and it becomes a competition....
Do you find that you get 'frisked' a lot when you travel abroad Ken? That's one for the watch list if I've ever heard!
