From: | Erik S Jameson <esj@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU> |
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Subject: | Burning Bright Question |
Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 1994 12:48:18 -0700 |
is this:
It says that the device is a thermonuclear device, something far more
powerfull than a normal nuclear device (they truely is a difference).
The bombs dropped on Japan were 18kiloton nuclear devices. Normal ICBMs
carry a payload of something like 14Megaton thermonuclear device. Now, I
don't know that much about physics, but wouldn't a 1kiloton thermonuclear
device have a bigger destructive radius than a 1kiloton nuclear
device? As I understand it, it would, mainly because the thermonuclear
device is much more efficient. And would this have any kind of effect on
the Buring Bright nuke dropping?
Erik, a.k.a. the Whistler