LINK href=http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/doctrine/dod/fm8-9/1toc.htm

if it works :-)

-- Rickjohn (rickjohn1@yahoo.com), May 31, 1999

Answers

No it did NOT maybe someone can link it

-- Rickjohn (rickjohn1@yahoo.com), May 31, 1999.

Lets try it again :-) href="http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/doctrine/dod/fm8-9/1toc.htm" LINK

-- Rickjohn (rickjohn1@yahoo.com), May 31, 1999.

I give up :-)

-- Rickjohn (rickjohn1@yahoo.com), May 31, 1999.

Nato handbook of Nuclear Protection

-- Ta da (howe9@pop.shentel.net), May 31, 1999.

Good stuff! Guess it's time to put another ream of paper into the printer.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), May 31, 1999.

Good, detailed information - look carefully at how "small" an area is actually affected in the damage assessment and blast effects section. the whole body radiation section is quite thorough - maybe more than most would want to read.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), May 31, 1999.

Again I note-- if you don't know how to construct a hot link:

Find a post here with a live hot link; [VIEW][SOURCE] then scan the resulting document for the text string containing the hot link.

You will see the HTML tags used. Then do thou likewise, with the URL and link title you want to use.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 02, 1999.

In the NATO handbook, the chart of blast effects is shown at yields up to 1000 Kt = 1 Megaton (Mt). Years ago I read in public discussions that it was even then possible to orbit a 100 Mt hydrogen bomb. Assuming no cloud cover, thermal radiation at ground level from its detonation at 90 miles altitude was said to be sufficient to ignite all combustibles not in shadow, over an area of several states. This would include all combustible roofing, all wooden structures, and field crops. There would be no shockwave since that requires atmospheric coupling. The "advantages" claimed for this is that the firestorms would disrupt civil and military activity, no radioactive fallout would contaminate the area, and troops later entering that area would not be at risk.

Grim, wot?

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 02, 1999.