These Were The Biggest Bombs Ever Made -- War Is Boring
Giant atomic bunker-busters are long gone, replaced by smaller munitions, as Steve Weintz recounts
The U.S. is reportedly readying its arsenal of deep-burying, fortification-smashing, non-nuclear bombs for a possible attack on Syrian chemical weapons sites.
American bunker-busters are big, to be sure—30,000 pounds for one model. But until the 1990s the U.S. relied on much more powerful nuclear weapons for destroying buried targets. And the Soviet Union had an even grander device.
In 2011 the Pantex plant in Texas completed dismantling one of the last Cold War monsters, an early-’60s-vintage U.S. Air Force B-53 nuclear gravity bomb.
Read more ....
My Comment: The paragraph that got my attention in this post was the last one ....
.... The microscopic remains of Big Ivan (1961) are embedded in the bones of everyone alive on Earth at that time. Fortunately, today the destruction of buried targets such as Syria’s chemical sites is a much more surgical affair.
I was born in 1960.
1 comment:
I'm sorry, but "The microscopic remains of Big Ivan (1961) are embedded in the bones of everyone alive on Earth at that time" seems to be nothing but pseudo bullshit.
I would dare the author of the article to back up such a conjuration of a claim with scientific fact. If anything, that just seems plain downright fanciful pseudoscience.
Post a Comment