Chelyabinsk was not a mighty 0.5 Mt big bang but a series of bangs as the
meteor fell apart I assumed.
I wonder if the Russians could fish up any solid meteor debris from under
the ice of that lake. An area which became off limits_maybe still is. So is
the matter if their detection systems saw it coming. Knowing a nuke could
pose as an innocent meteor from nowhere.
John
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Subject: [AR] Re: Damascus AR Incident
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Andrew Burns wrote:
...the detonation of one point will never produce a full yield but maypopulated area...
produce a sub-kiloton yield involving some fission. That may not sound
like a lot but it still means that in an accident with one of those
devices where one of the detonators goes off (which is entirely
plausible) the device could still produce the equivalent energy of
hundreds of tons of HE, which is going to be a big deal if it's near a