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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (26532)	4/29/2004 8:33:13 AM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

>>>And by today's standards that's just a little tactical weapon.<<< That is a very good point. The bombs dropped on Japan were pipsqueaks. The multi-megaton monsters the USSR built were country crushers. Lob one east of the Mississippi and you take out Washington. They had some difficulty with accuracy so they made them bigger. Remember the word "megatonnage?" I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this chart but it does state it is based on Department of Energy data. johnstonsarchive.net The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were somewhere from 10 to 22 kilitons. If we are to believe the accuracy of the above chart, the "other" nuclear powers are approaching 1,000 megatons now. Back in the early 1980s, I picked up another book. It is titled Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings. I probably own one of the few libraries that has the first English edition of this book. It just isn't cheery enough for the masses. It is pretty much as the title explains. However, last night I opened it and found something that caught my eye again. The first item in the book is a photo taken from ground level. It shows an ugly cloud--mushroom shaped--and some very pissed-off trees. The caption reads: "Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, 8:15 A. M. This picture was taken by Seizo Yamado--then a middle school student--when he was fishing with a friend at Mikumari ravine located 7 kilometers east-northeast of Hiroshima (Fuchu town, Aki county). Frightened by a flash and explosion, he looked up to find the surrounding trees shaking and a huge cloud blowing up."