Here is a background information video on the bomb that the United States military just dropped in Afghanistan, the "Mother of All Bombs."
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Note: According to the Guardian in 2007, Russia tested a "Father of All Bombs", which is claimed to be four times as powerful as the MOAB.
Clearly this is a "girlly man" bomb and we rightly fear nukes. Compare this to footage of nukes vaporizing islands in the Pacific during the 1950s. This wouldn't get my attention if I was the enemy. I'm sure if you were in a cave just a half mile away you would be perfectly fine. A nuke however would level a mountain AND leave deadly fallout. I can only hope General Buck Turgidson doesn't have Trump's ear.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia says that the bomb weighs 10,300 kg (22,600 lb), but it has a 11 tons of TNT yield. Compare with Little Boy (Hiroshima) 15 kilotons, or thermonuclear Ivy Mike, 10 megatons.
ReplyDeleteYeah they tested this at Eglin, near where I live. You can always feel the vibrations from the bomb testing miles from where they test all this stuff.
ReplyDeleteEnter Rothbard:
ReplyDelete"...the use of nuclear or similar weapons, or the threat thereof, is a sin and a crime against humanity for which there can be no justification."
http://www.targetliberty.com/2016/12/murray-rothbard-on-nuclear-weapons.html