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- Fireball radius: 100 m (0.03 km²)
Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation. If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased.
- Air blast radius (20 psi): 270 m (0.24 km²)
At 20 psi overpressure, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%.
- Air blast radius (5 psi): 0.58 km (1.05 km²)
At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread.
- Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 0.69 km (1.48 km²)
Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 7.4 cal/cm2.
- Radiation radius (500 rem): 0.94 km (2.8 km²)
500 rem radiation dose; without medical treatment, there can be expected between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects alone. Dying takes between several hours and several weeks.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: butcherguy
I'm showing a 2 kiloton device with the following effect in lower Manhattan.
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- Fireball radius: 100 m (0.03 km²)
Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation. If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased.
- Air blast radius (20 psi): 270 m (0.24 km²)
At 20 psi overpressure, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%.
- Air blast radius (5 psi): 0.58 km (1.05 km²)
At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread.
- Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 0.69 km (1.48 km²)
Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 7.4 cal/cm2.
- Radiation radius (500 rem): 0.94 km (2.8 km²)
500 rem radiation dose; without medical treatment, there can be expected between 50% and 90% mortality from acute effects alone. Dying takes between several hours and several weeks.
Looks like near total destruction to around half a kilometer and things cease to exist within a 100 meter diameter at something hotter than the sun.
We'd have noticed. I'm sure of it.
originally posted by: Arktos1
It is a real challenge to find the truth. I wish there were some real links to sources of the docs at the VT site.
Link to youtube video where Gordy himself admits to propagating lies:
Sorry I did not embed, will learn how for next time.
originally posted by: SMOKINGGUN2012
Well we all knew this was coming the only question was when. Now that we have pissed off Putin and again are reviving all cold war efforts it was only a matter of time before he started spilling the beans on what Russia knows of things from the past 25 years since the wall came down.
You may or may not trust this source but feel free to browse this..........
www.veteranstoday.com...
According to a retired FXX agent specializing in Israeli counter intel: The type of nuclear devices used on 911 were a modified version of the W-54 nuclear artillery shells that were covertly provided to the Israelis between 1988 and 1998 from US surplus stockpiles illegally exported during the Bush/Clinton era.
originally posted by: Sirrurg
If it actually works that way, it certainly would explain why there was molten metal under the rubble that took about a month to stop burning, but I guess it would also literally rip a hole into the subway system and the sewers, depending on how deep they go.
originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: SMOKINGGUN2012
What a load of rubbish OP... 2 x 2 kiloton = 4000 tons of TNT
That would have reduced central Manhattan to Rubble.
There was no nuclear detonation on 9/11
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: Sirrurg
You can detonate a nuke in ways that can't be visually seen from above ground, depending on size and specific yield. However, there is absolutely NO chance of hiding the event of a nuclear detonation from every seismograph in the region and likely most, if not all of the world.
Nukes leave a signature as distinct in it's own way as a fingerprint on a seismic trace.
originally posted by: Wrabbit2000
a reply to: smurfy
I really don't know, to be honest. I mean that could have a perfectly logical physics explanation in so far as the collapse starting from the core out and both being of identical construction, failing in near identical ways. They were designed to pancake in the event of collapse, that much I believe is well established in period records back to their construction.