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Ian Stirling wrote:
In sci.space.policy James Nicoll wrote:
In article ,
Mike Walsh wrote:

"The Effects of Nuclear Weapons"

That is an old one right from the Government Printing Office.

Has a few rule of thumb scaling laws that you can use to
get an estimate on how much damage a particular size warhead
will cause. You have to extrapolate from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
data given in the book.

Unless you have one like mine, which comes with the Nuclear
Effects circular slide rule in the back pocket.

Which is good, as it lets you pronounce with certainty "that was
eleven megatons", when all about you are running away screaming

One should be able to tell quite a lot from the lag
between bursting into flames and the buildings around one
collapsing, as well as the apparent wide of the fireball vs
how fast one's eyes melted.
--
"The keywords for tonight are Caution and Flammability."
JFK, _Bubba Ho Tep_