Mr. Perfect wrote:Typhoon wrote:
As a tool to estimate the effects of a real nuclear attack that site is of no value. For entertainment purposes only.
After the massive 50 MT Tsar Bomba,
nuclear strategists came to understand that delivering
multiple lower yield nuclear weapons is far far more destructive than a
single equivalent nuclear blast.
The site does not take MRVs into account.
The reason for this is relatively simple physics: the flash thermal radiation and blast shock front intensities decreases rapidly as [actually faster than] the inverse square of the distance from the origin of the explosion.
Going by memory, the most recent Russian MRVs have 10 0.75 MT warheads per ICBM.
Each of the 10 warheads in a single MRV has 5 times the explosive yield of the weapon deployed against the civilian population of Hiroshima.
Major cities and other strategic locations would receive multiple hits by such MRVs.
noddy won't be contacting anyone in the N Hemisphere by ham radio or otherwise.
It's not clear what this has to do with anything, but there appears to be an assumption that a nuclear attack would conform to some sort of predictability. That of course is a humorous assumption.
Only to point out that your Captain Midnight Secret Society not only has no clue what it is going on about, it has no clue that it has no clue.
That's how a MAD scenario between the US and, say, Russia would play out which is what you appeared to allude to in your starter post.
On the other hand, if your are referring to the to-date hypothetical scenario of someone docking a freighter with a nuclear device in it's hold in, say, Baltimore Harbour, then the good news is that, unlike with MAD, the US will survive, the bad news is that a lot of innocent people in the area will die.
The best defense against such a scenario is early detection, interdiction, and destruction.
Ironically, if such a scenario should come to pass in the future,
then it will have most probably been financed and procured by American allies, so-called, just like 9/11.
Allies such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
If 9/11 is any guide, then the US response will be to bomb Borneo.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.