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Offline Grumpmeister

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Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« on: October 25, 2011, 03:41:04 PM »
Saw this on the Daily Mail website about the last of the large scale nuclear bombs being dismantled.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html

One line in the article did grab my attention:

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Hans Kristensen, director of the organisation's Nuclear Information Project: 'It’s the end of the era of monster weapons, if you will.

'Its accuracy was horrendous,' he added. 'It was one heck of a whopper.

This thing was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, was it landing in the next time zone or something?  eeek:

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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2011, 03:46:33 PM »
Saw this on the Daily Mail website about the last of the large scale nuclear bombs being dismantled.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html

One line in the article did grab my attention:

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Hans Kristensen, director of the organisation's Nuclear Information Project: 'It’s the end of the era of monster weapons, if you will.

'Its accuracy was horrendous,' he added. 'It was one heck of a whopper.

This thing was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, was it landing in the next time zone or something?  eeek:

You wouldn't need to be very accurate would you...?  rubschin:
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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2011, 03:51:16 PM »
That was what I figured, but given the number of blue on blue incidents the yanks have had I dread to think what the margin of error must have been for this thing.
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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2011, 03:53:06 PM »
That was what I figured, but given the number of blue on blue incidents the yanks have had I dread to think what the margin of error must have been for this thing.

Aye - we're talking planetary accuracy!  lol: lol: lol:
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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2011, 06:16:32 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2011, 06:30:09 PM »
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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 06:59:51 PM »
He invented an air-raid shelter?  eeek:
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Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2011, 05:33:26 AM »
Not much good against a nuclear bomb in the hands of the Yanks  noooo: scared2:
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