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36706 Re: Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
   Why don't we drop an A-bomb on a North Korea A-bomb work site and... 		DGpeddler   POPE IV   14 Oct 2017
 12:32 AM
36675 Re: Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
   De, out of curiosity, was that 50 megaton blast above ground? 		starlight   POPE IV   13 Oct 2017
 12:05 PM
36674 Re: Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
   >> There'd be no point in comparing the effects of a nuclear blast to... 		monkeytrots   POPE IV   13 Oct 2017
 11:46 AM
36671 Re: Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
   LOL - Build away, DE. I have ALWAYS challenged the 'experts' - and... 		monkeytrots   POPE IV   13 Oct 2017
 11:29 AM

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Re: Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'

By: Decomposed in POPE IV
Fri, 13 Oct 17 11:10 AM
Msg. 36669 of 47202
(This msg. is a reply to 36637 by monkeytrots)
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re: " I could (but won't) walk through the calculations of total energy released by an x-megaton nuclear device, and compare that to total energy of a single bolt of lightning, direct strike, use radius-cubed energy density and all that other stuff ... but gonna tell ya right now"

For the board's edification, a 4 megaton nuclear blast has the energy of 16.5 million lightning bolts. There'd be no point in comparing the effects of a nuclear blast to those of a single lightning bolt.

North Korea's H-bomb, if that's what it was, was in the 150 KILOTON range. But it's only a matter of time before they have something in the megaton range.

The biggest thermonuclear device ever exploded was about 50 megatons. 


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