Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons

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and that's also assuming it's on flat land with no geographical obstacle around.
 
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A Minuteman III is a first strike Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) nuclear weapon. The current U.S. ICBM force consists of 500 Minuteman III's located in three missile fields: F.E. Warren Air Force Base with 150 missiles covering the corner of Colorado , Nebraska and Wyoming ; Malmstrom AFB in Montana with 200 ICBMs; and Minot AFB in North Dakota with 150 missiles. These warheads can be launched from a Minuteman III missile silo within minutes and reach any destination within 35 minutes. A nuclear bomb launched from a Minuteman silo produces uncontrollable radiation, massive heat and a blast capable of vaporizing and leveling everything within a 50-mile radius. Outside the 50 square miles -- extending into hundreds of miles -- the blast, wide-spread heat, firestorms and neutron and gamma rays are intended to kill, severely wound and poison every living thing and causing long-term damage to the environment. A Minuteman warhead has the potential to destroy the genetic code of the human race. Current warheads carry 27 times more power than the U.S. nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945.
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Source: Minuteman III Fact Sheet


This one is capable of destroying places with radiation and heat fallout at or around 500 miles radius.
 
Calvin said:
Today, the nuclear bomb is several times more powerful and can take just one nuke to wipe out 500 miles radius at least and more plutonium can make it worse to wipe out more and can reach 1k miles radius.
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Calvin, please be aware you said in the singular sense "one nuke" and not about multiple warheads which could wipe out an area in a 500 miles radius. You used the words "wipe out" which is in essence means to destroy or in this case a nuclear blast. And you used the word "radius" as well. And nothing about radiation fallouts which would just kill or injure biological life but not in a radius area but more oblong, depending on how the wind blows.
 
because it is as equally pointless. the radiation will poison the enviroment and eventually kill once people leave the bunker. *insert picyure of mutants from any B-movie here*
 
C.C.Sinned said:
because it is as equally pointless. the radiation will poison the enviroment and eventually kill once people leave the bunker. *insert picyure of mutants from any B-movie here*
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Exactly.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Thanks for the correction.

And, you're right about the BFF comment, too. But, I don't think any country is BFF. It seems that every country has traded arms back and forth. Hell, back in the 80s we GAVE arms to Iraq for God sake!

So, no country can claim honor in this world; not even our precious United States of America.
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I haven't read every post, but what does BFF mean?
 
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