I think we should each send a bottle to Dan
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The book, Command and Control, that I mentioned earlier and that someone else linked the PBS docco for goes over this a lot.Smitty-48 wrote:One of the problems with SAC, was that is was all Bomber Jockeys, SAC was all about the B-52, Missileers were the black sheep of the family, Missileers didn't get promoted to the top levels, the bomber crews ruled the roost, but the thing is, they didn't know anything about the missiles, nor did they care, the Titan II's were just left to be ticking time bombs, because the bosses at SAC basically ignored them.
Just think of what a Tsar Bomba would doSmitty-48 wrote:They had bomber pilots in charge of all the missile wings, so if something went wrong, the Colonel was basically asking a 19 year old kid what he should do about it. When the 19 year old kid told him what to do, some bomber pilot General at Omaha overruled them; it's just dumb luck one of those Titan II's never went critical mass.
And I mean, nine megatons yield, ground level detonation, right in the middle of the CONUS? Yikes, Cormac McCarthy; Castle Bravo for the masses.
Here's what the lethal fallout plume looks like for that, superimposed on the Northeast;
Move that ground zero west to Little Rock, that might actually be worse, because the full sized plume is probably around 3000 miles, so you have even more people in the path of it, airburst wouldn't be quite as bad, but surface burst, that would be the worst, the lower it pops, the more fallout you get.
9Mt's detonating just below ground level, kicking all that ground up into the mushroom cloud; radioactive volcano.
The Tsar Bomb was all about propaganda, but wouldn't make much difference in an operational sense, 57Mt's produces a larger explosion, but wouldn't make a huge difference in terms of prolonged effects, the limiting factor is the atmosphere, the fallout only goes so high before it runs into the roof, so the fallout plume for the Tsar Bomb wasn't so much greater than Castle Bravo that you would notice, and radioactive is radioactive, so it's not like Tsar Bomb was more radioactive than Castle Bravo.California wrote:Just think of what a Tsar Bomba would do
That 30-45 minutes of the Korean War really makes me want a full HH on it nowadwinistrator wrote:I'm about 3 hours in, and now have an understanding of how ignorant I am of the Korean War.
Please point me to books, websites, documentaries, etc.
I am honestly a bit ashamed at my blind spot in regards to this, I have family that served there.
Nah, that's animation, this is the only real footage of the Tsar Bomb;California wrote:Is this not real footage?