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Michael considered fate at 15:06   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

The Union of Concerned Scientists has a Flash animation depicting the effects of a Nuclear bunker buster bomb. Specially aimed at, well, underground bunkers. The sequence shows radiation fallout and what areas would be radiated if Iran was hit.

I'm no fan of nukes but nevertheless our concerned scientists do us a slight dis-service by animating a one megaton weapon blast, even though they admit that The funding for this weapon was cut in 2005 defense appropriations. They happily point out that a 400 kiloton yield weapon remains in the U.S. arsenal. I don't have to point out that it's less than half the size of the depicted weapon, do I? Do I?

You can point fingers all you want but the key to remember is that there are two ends to every finger - one just happens to be attached to a hand.