Re: For Your Information

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:33:47 GMT, "Chris"
<nimbo@(no-spam)ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

>Well, Tim, you seem to be confident about the safety of nuclear weapons, how
>many are you planning to detonate and where? Is you kill going to be 2
>million or 200 million. Only a few percent or the total population, not

You're the one who started this thread by making the initial claim
2000MT N-detonation == ELE. Your top posting conceals that fact from
most rational readers.

>much worse than a severe famine in west africa. As I understand it a
>planned nuclear war in Europe was estimated to kill 10% of the population,
>or about 20 million people, that about what the Russian's lost in the Great
>Patriotic War with Hitler. Are we facing another disaster on this scale?

One weapon no matter how big.. (unless it's in the Million MT
range) isn't going to be ELE.

>
>As I understand it this cloud of dust, from its various sources gets up into
>the upper atmosphere and goes all round the world. Like the exposion of
>Krakatoa, which was probably bigger, and dim the sun for several years. If
>you compare a large nuclear exposion with an asteriod strike you get the
>comparison. I have no idea of the relative energy release but it was
>probably an asteriod strike that caused the downfall of the Roman Empire.
>
>I have been reliably informed that a 2000 M Ton bomb is too big to be safe
>for the planetary ecosystem and the people who told me knew what they were
>talking about.

You're reliably Uninformed.. N-weapon blast effects are a function
of a cubed root. I.E. 2000MT has only 10X more destructive radii
than a 2 MT weapon.

One needs lot's little weapons which can ignite other fuel sources
and cause a nuclear winter. Large asteroids accomplish this goal by
ejecting large quantities of molten rock into sub-orbital trajectories
which then ignites other fuel sources thousands of miles away.

Snip..

Synopsis for other readers.

Chris making another wild claim about a single 2000MT N-weapon
causing an ELE and my rebuttal, Katrina == 10,000MT event, and not
even close to an ELE.
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