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2006-07-02 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Glaitch Groting9149 2006-07-02 06:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This time, it could come from the sea.

Given they can't detect Haitian boat people till the news helicopter is hovering over the beach at night, its not going to be too hard.

Posted by Chease Angogum1265 2006-07-02 13:54|| 2006-07-02 13:54|| Front Page Top

An Hiroshima-type bomb with an equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT could take out a city and most people in it. The heat from the blast will evaporate most structures near the explosion and create radiation that will affect the lives of many more people.

Hmmm, the Hiroshima bomb was detonated at 1900 feet in the middle of the city specifically to maximise the damage created and killed 70,000 people.

I would have thought that any bomb of the same size detonated in a port, at sea level, is not going to create the same damage as the Hiroshima device. Not that there won't be extensive damage of course!

IMHO, the quote about 'taking out a city' is pure hyperbole.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-02 17:30|| 2006-07-02 17:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are bustling cities today.
Neither was "Taken Out" except temporarily.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-07-02 19:23|| 2006-07-02 19:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, we have the strength and power to suppress, and then obliterate, an attack from any front or direction.

Today, our political system, the best concieved in modern history, can't muster the resolve to assuage all the cry-babies, and then do what must be done.

Posted by as 2006-07-02 22:41|| 2006-07-02 22:41|| Front Page Top

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