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How safe are you against a nuclear bomb?
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I would be safe on the account that I live in a small town in SE MN, no reason to target my area unless the Mayo Clinic/Saint Marys hospital is a big enough target to bomb and even then a "Ivy Mike" H-bomb would need be used; I would be screwed. The fallout would get me before the actual bombing would.
Hold up, the Netherlands and Belgium are actually packing some (borrowed) nuclear heat? So proud.
Not really.
Blue Ninja
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UnluckyKate
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maybe the building here are stronger than the one back then. Maybe they will resist better from a air blast (let's say a couple hundred meters above ground)
Christopher
BDE (Big Dad Energy)
Weapons like this should never have been made
The Tsar Bomba maps are rather useless. Nothing remotely that destructive will ever see actual use.
At least I hope not, because Antwerp lies right in the blast radius if they target Brussels. Mother of christ that thing is powerful.
As far as North Korea's weaponry goes, they could detonate their allegedly biggest bomb right on Antwerp Central station and I would still be right outside the thermal radiation radius.
At least I hope not, because Antwerp lies right in the blast radius if they target Brussels. Mother of christ that thing is powerful.
As far as North Korea's weaponry goes, they could detonate their allegedly biggest bomb right on Antwerp Central station and I would still be right outside the thermal radiation radius.
Inevitable.
Blue Ninja
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Useless, yeah, but also interesting.
And to be fair, I think the people of Antwerp have ego's large enough to block all incoming attacks.
ThoseDeafMutes
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It was never deployed for a reason, i.e. smaller weapons are much more efficient and useful. Notice that as you're doubling the power the radius only increases slightly compared to the original one. These weapons exist to destroy assets, not just give burns to people at long ranges, so a lot of them are targeted at airfields, railways yards and industrial sites with ground bursts to "scour" the site and actually destroy it. This reduces the effective range substantially because it's not dropping at optimal height for longest range blast. A Tsar bomba will do a lot of damage over a huge amount of land, but it won't actually destroy hardened targets in 99% of that area. So it's better to have lots of small epicenters than one huge blast that tries to get all of them. You end up wasting most of your energy on non-targets and empty space.
Hmm? I thought this was a general Belgian thing.
I wouldn't know though, i'm dutch and only live here for a 6 month hospital internship.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
It could be worse. America could have secretly stored nukes in your country during decades without telling you like they did in Spain.
Blue Ninja
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Funny, we say the same thing about you guys up north. :lol
I also have no idea why mentioning the word "nuclear bomb" has suddenly summoned like half of Belgium-GAF into this thread.
Lol. Ain't that the truth. Worked some one of those assholes once. Never again. Such a cunt.
Oh god, I know.
The hilarious stereotypes fly around between me and my belgian co-workers like nobodies business. Belgian people are dumb and introverted, Dutch people are loud and obnoxious.
We're yin and yang.
I like living here though, and I might even go to uni here.
Anyway, back to nukes.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
I thought this was the website that included the Chixulub asteroid as one of its impact scenarios. That shit was surreal, made the 100 mt Tsar Bomba look like a firecracker by comparison. Fucking space, man...
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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I live in the 909 area code, slightly east of LA, so I'm fucked.
Silas Lang
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I feel pretty safe. I don't live near a major metropolitan area and there is nothing of significance around me. It would be pretty pointless to drop a nuke where I am.
Mammoth Jones
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Same. Shit goes down I will have nowhere to go.
what if they shoot a nuke in a rural area as a warning?
It's much, much grimmer if you actually live in Sheffield (as I do, heh). Still, if NK detonated their largest bomb in the dead centre, I'd be 'fine'. (for certain values of fine.)
The arrow is roughly where my house is.
Silas Lang
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Not saying it can't happen, just seems a lot less likely. If they did drop one near me I would be dead of course.
Oh no, those guys (and girls) are quite "special".
Not all of them of course, but the majority sure has a superiority complex for whatever reason.
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
Tsar Bomba:
welp
HOTLANTA!
Tsar Bomba:
welp
veiny boob
Mac the KNife
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No one would bother nuking Detroit. I'm good.
Voice of Reason
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me vs nuclear bomb who wins
I'd be a bit peeved for about 1 second or something before being obliterated.
Manmademan
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flesh cooked off your bones is probably preferable to slow agonizing death by radiation poisoning.
that radius is basically everyone who "gets lucky" and is obliterated immediately.
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Aw, this is giving me nostalgia.
Just wait until we make planet destroying ships.
It would destroy everything except the coast and the ardennes.
Sup with the Belgian influx here? :lol
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I always liked how there was a button there and no one realized something might be up with a button there.
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