(3 October 2012, 08:26)bigpaul Wrote: does an air burst kill less or more people NR? and what about fallout...more or less...does it go further if its an airburst rather than ground?
Depends BP all the crap from a nuke travel in straight lines so even if a nuke goes off at 50,000 ft, or at 500 ft if you are on the other side of the hill five miles away your safe (for now)
Blast from a nuke again by it high level or low level gradually gets weakened and stopped as it passes through the atmosphere. So if one went off at 500 ft in the middle of nowhere its only going to kill hundreds by blast, but a 500 footer WILL create fallout that will blow elsewhere to claim more victims. A bomb going off at 50,000 feet will kill less by blast cos its dissipated and less will die from radiation cos of the distance and the fact almost no fallout is created.
FYI FALLOUT is the dirt a ground or underground nuke vapourises and irradiates and thows up into the atmosphere threat spreading the radiation much further.
Air burst bombs which are 99% of most modern weapons cannot create hardly any fallout cos they are so far up in the sky, they rely on blast and directed radiation plus EMP to do damage.
(3 October 2012, 08:50)Barneyboy Wrote: so in layman terms we is propper fucked innit
No we are better off cos a bomb aty 50,000 feet will do very little damage to people ( thousands rather than millions dead) but will toast our electronics. Its realy an instantanious moved from a modern microprocessor technological world by to a victorian one in under a milli second.
FYI the huge sodding great multi megaton weapons were only built so big because the missile guidance systems in the cold war were so poor, now everyone can fly a cruise missile through an office window and kill the guy wearing the uniform but not the office cleaner
So we now use kiloton and sub kiloton weapons to do the job.
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