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"The terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people. The west is drastically underestimating the power of ISIS. ISIS intends to get its hands on nuclear weapons,” says Todenhofer, calling the group a “nuclear tsunami preparing the largest religious cleansing in history.”
originally posted by: snypwsd
a reply to: glend
You don't make sense. Not everything is a conspiracy
You don't make sense. Not everything is a conspiracy
originally posted by: seagull
Do any of you realize just how much power is necessary to generate even the tiniest tsunami? Much less one capable of killing millions?
There have been several underwater nuclear test detonations. Only one of which reports any significant wave action...the Baker test in 1946 at Bikini generated a 90 foot wave at around 1000 feet from ground zero, but that wave had subsided to less than ten feet at 20000' from ground zero. Baker test was 20 kilotons.
So immensely large devices (multiple) would be necessary to do the job. Thank God.
About the only feasible way would be to detonate one on say La Palma Island in the Atlantic hoping to dislodge the huge rock waiting to fall off into the water there.
That would, indeed, be a wave of staggering power. I read someplace that the wave that hits the U.S. east coast and Carib islands on its way to the east coast will be on the order of 30 to 50 meters high. Needless to say, the loss of life would be horrific...and whoever did it deliberately, if that's even possible, would have signed their death warrants, so too would any country harboring them.
It wouldn't be conventional, either. It would be nuclear. That is standing U.S./NATO policy. A nuclear attack is answered by nukes. Chemical attacks of large scale are answered by nukes. Biological attacks on a large scale, are answered by nukes.
...and considering the loss of life that would occur during such an event? Not sure I'd argue too much...