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2023-11-04 Science & Technology
Maps show devastating impact of America's new super-nuke on Russian capital: B61-13 'gravity bomb' has 24 times more power than the one dropped on Hiroshima
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Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-04 06:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 24 times more powerful than the nuke detonated in Hiroshima

How much is that in elephants?

Sometimes the interesting thing about a news story is not the topic, but the timing. Why is the DM shopping this story now? The maps are all about Russia but the text is about China.
Posted by SteveS 2023-11-04 08:36||   2023-11-04 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Flyash Liberation Army would be a contributor in China
Posted by Frank G 2023-11-04 09:24||   2023-11-04 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Whaaat? Yeah, and all you have to do is get one there. (A gravity bomb on Moscow...)
Somebody's been smoking stealth bomber crack.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-11-04 09:37||   2023-11-04 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 bomb's estimated maximum yield of 360 kilotons of TNT

Two orders of magnitude less than the largest nukes tested.

I imagine the Russians and the Chinese are shaking in their boots.
Posted by Bobby 2023-11-04 09:50||   2023-11-04 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, the one thing it is not is "unilateral disarmament."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-04 09:55||   2023-11-04 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 The Obama administration approved the development of the B61-12, with the first unit being produced in November 2021

Peace Prize, y'all.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-11-04 11:31||   2023-11-04 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 All that work that Nixon and Brezhnev did for the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty down the drain. We know Democrats hated Nixon as much as they hate Trump. We know Democrats are destructive. But now it seems they want to burn the whole world.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-04 12:07||   2023-11-04 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Our nukes are getting pretty old. If we’re going to have them they should be kept current.
Posted by Gerthudion Glaise9097 2023-11-04 13:59||   2023-11-04 13:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Because they're the corporate media, the tool of power? They're ginning up support for a nuclear war?

Remember, a nuclear war is better than taking an L in Ukraine.
Posted by Ebbease Panda9307 2023-11-04 15:06||   2023-11-04 15:06|| Front Page Top

#10 How much is that in elephants?

Didn't see a banana on the map for reference, so can't help you there SteveS.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-04 15:52||   2023-11-04 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Using gravity to guide a bomb to its target? Is there no limit to American ingenuity?
Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-11-04 16:48||   2023-11-04 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 A gravity bomb? As a crane
Was loading the thing on a train...
"But why would they bother?
Our next Little Father
Will bring a more damaging reign."

[Gahan of Bill reading Edmund to Hill]
Posted by Elmomoth Trotsky8301 2023-11-04 17:24||   2023-11-04 17:24|| Front Page Top

#13 How much is that in elephants?

Like 48,000 Teslas
Posted by Frank G 2023-11-04 17:57||   2023-11-04 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Can we test it over Davos? The next time the WEF has their confab there.
Posted by Thuse B. Hayes3625 2023-11-04 19:13||   2023-11-04 19:13|| Front Page Top

#15 I miss President Ronald Reagan and the Rod’s From God weapon idea. No fallout but equally devastating. Story came up again a few years back.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/these-air-force-rods-from-god-could-hit-with-the-force-of-a-nuclear-weapon/
Posted by Delphi 2023-11-04 22:26||   2023-11-04 22:26|| Front Page Top

#16 I suspect that a lot of people see Starship specs and wonder "What's that in rods?"
Posted by Elmomoth Trotsky8301 2023-11-04 23:53||   2023-11-04 23:53|| Front Page Top

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