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- From: Frank Kastenholz <samsung!ulowell!vax.ftp.com!kasten@uunet.uu.net>
- Subject: Re: Is this true?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:47:58 GMT
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- From Frank Kastenholz <samsung!ulowell!vax.ftp.com!kasten@uunet.uu.net>
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- In article <C17vLw.Eo6@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Geoff Miller <Geoff.Miller@corp.sun.com> writes:
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- > >But 5 meg bombs are awfully rare these days. Even US ICBMs don't carry
- > >much more than 350k warheads.
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- > Why are megaton-range weapons rare in this day and age? Also, what are
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- The destructive effects of the bombs do not increase as the yield increases.
- A 1-Megaton bomb does not cause twice the destruction, have twice the blast
- radius, etc, as a 500 Kiloton bomb.
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- There might also be a reliability issue. If a city has one 1 big bomb
- targeted on it and that bomb doesn't make it for whatever reason,
- then the city isn't bombed. If there are 5 smaller bombs targeted on
- the city, even if a couple don't make it, the rest _do_ make it...
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- Frank Kastenholz
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