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Can anyone explain the legit reason the U.S. needs to test a bomb like this for the purposes decribed in the article? What are we gonna do pack all that shit in a SF soldiers backpack and sneak em in Korea or Iran. Gimme a break. Sounds like covering up something else to me. Who knows. It's a state secrect right>:([:/] http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/26/nevada.bomb/index.html?eref=aol-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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1.4 million pounds alot to carry around or are you agreeing w/ the HIDE THE NUKE TEST?



1.4M pounds is 700,000 tons, 700kT. Roughly the size of a standard nuke in some packaging.

They are planning to use fuel/fertilizer in an effort to calibrate the conditions of what a real nuke would need.

Look at it this way, if/when the Iranians or DPRK detonate a nuke of their own. There will be no discussion. The President will lift the moratorium enacted in 1992, and they'll use real nukes to test the new designs.

Let them use fuel I say.
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1.4 million pounds alot to carry around or are you agreeing w/ the HIDE THE NUKE TEST?



1.4M pounds is 700,000 tons, 700kT. Roughly the size of a standard nuke in some packaging.
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1.4x10^6/(2000lb/ton) = 700T = 0.7kT.
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it sounds like the plan is if they drop a conventional bomb to blow a pit above the underground bunker, then drop a nuke into the pit in order to destroy the underground bunker.

how big does the pit need to be for the nuke to reach the underground bunker? thats what they are testing.

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1.4 million pounds alot to carry around or are you agreeing w/ the HIDE THE NUKE TEST?



1.4M pounds is 700,000 tons, 700kT. Roughly the size of a standard nuke in some packaging.
.



WRONG

1.4x10^6/(2000lb/ton) = 700T = 0.7kT.



I was wrong in my calculation. Should've thought "slower". :P
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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1.4 million pounds alot to carry around or are you agreeing w/ the HIDE THE NUKE TEST?



1.4M pounds is 700,000 tons, 700kT. Roughly the size of a standard nuke in some packaging.
.



WRONG

1.4x10^6/(2000lb/ton) = 700T = 0.7kT.



I was wrong in my calculation. Should've thought "slower". :P



Careful with those college Physics Profs, they can spot a mistake in calculations even before you starting writing it down.:P

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it sounds like the plan is if they drop a conventional bomb to blow a pit above the underground bunker, then drop a nuke into the pit in order to destroy the underground bunker.

how big does the pit need to be for the nuke to reach the underground bunker? thats what they are testing.



Actually it seems to me as if they're testing how shockwaves from -huge- explosions (read nuclear) affect bunkers. Since they can't actually use a nuke for the test they're substituting a massive amount of conventional explosive, hence the need for the pit to put it all in. The real nuclear weapon (being rather small) doesn't need a excavated pit to sit in and is simply dropped from a great height in order to penetrate the surface before exploding.

Personally I really don't like development of 'tactical' nukes like this. I know they've been around in a few different forms for some time but anything that makes it easier to push the button the first time...[:/]
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Another thing i'm worried about is the talks of putting conventional warheads in sub launched ballistic missiles.

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1.4 million pounds alot to carry around or are you agreeing w/ the HIDE THE NUKE TEST?



1.4M pounds is 700,000 tons, 700kT. Roughly the size of a standard nuke in some packaging.
.



WRONG

1.4x10^6/(2000lb/ton) = 700T = 0.7kT.



I was wrong in my calculation. Should've thought "slower". :P



Careful with those college Physics Profs, they can spot a mistake in calculations even before you starting writing it down.:P



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More info:

http://www.dtra.mil/divinestrake/index.cfm

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http://www.dtra.mil/divinestrake/frequentAQ.cfm

Interesting publication w/r/t the effectiveness of nuclear weapons against underground bunkers containing biological agents: http://cisac.stanford.edu/publications/effectiveness_of_nuclear_weapons_against_buried_biological_agents/

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