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Coyote has a Bathtub full of JAM:
Better yet...nuclear hand grenades. The grunts won't use them, they'll know better.
Why are we developing a 90kiloton yeild BUNKER BUSTER?
The panel also approved 15 million dollars for development of Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, also known as a "bunker-buster" for its ability to penetrate and destroy underground bunkers.
The new bunker-buster would be a redesign of an existing nuclear weapon, and would have yields six times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, The Los Angeles Times said.
The fallout from this would be devestating. |
Actually, there probably wouldn't be much fallout from such a device.
Bunker-buster weapons usually burrow a considerable distance beneath the surface (anywhere between ten and forty-or-so metres) prior to detonation. Because of this, the actual ‘weight of earth’ above muffles much of the explosion and radioactive ejecta is invariably kept to nominal levels.
There’s plenty of good scientific evidence to back this up too (garnered from copious amounts of underground testing conducted by the US and USSR mainly in the seventies).
Of course, the question of what would happen if such a device detonated prematurely is another matter entirely.
IMO, this whole thing is a bit of a red-herring, as anyone with even a modicum of sense should realise that defending against such weapons is fairly easy: you just build your bunkers deeper where it becomes increasingly difficult for even high-yield nukes (one megaton upwards) to make much of an impression.
In all likelihood, this is merely a ‘backdoor method’ into some other kind of weapons research, which remains altogether nefarious and abstruse at this time.
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