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To: Real Man who wrote (395615)	10/10/2009 1:44:32 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436258

Reading it, to roughly summarize the power of that nuke that Nobel Peace Prize winner Sakharov designed. If it Xploded in Jacksonville, FL, windows would be shattered in NYC and Chicago, and Atlanta would be flat land. LA would be OK <G>. Geez. No wonder Sakharov spent all his life fighting for peace after designing that weapon. "A shock wave in air was observed at Dickson settlement at 700 km; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km. All buildings in Severny (both wooden and brick), at a distance of 55 km, were completely destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. The atmospheric disturbance generated by the explosion orbited the earth three times. A gigantic mushroom cloud rose as high as 64 kilometers (210,000 ft)" Some controversy in that 1975 decision <g> Now that the Cold War, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the power of these weapons are long forgotten, Shrub's escalation of global tensions was especially dangerous. He was dumb. Luckily, not dumb enough to use 'em nukes. We have a few birds like that.