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To: hmaly who wrote (132645)	2/13/2001 3:56:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

Harry. 100MT bombs might have existed in the past but if so they where few and far between. I know of no test of any bomb that large and even if such a bomb was exploded over Texas it would not set fires over 500 miles away (which your example would require it to do. Texas is a big state.) Here is a link to the estimated effects of a smaller (but still very big) 25MT air blast over Dallas. pbs.vicinity.com 50% are dead out to 10.7 miles, at 20 miles only about 5% are dead and less then half are severely injured. This doesn't include the delayed effects of fallout which for some bombs can be very nasty, and it also does not include the deaths caused by the lack of food and water after the explosion destroys the local economy. Fires would be started beyond the blast radius but not far enough to wipe out a normal sized state. Tim