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Old May 30th 04, 12:49 AM
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Old May 30th 04, 11:19 PM
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World" by Alway, "Toward Distant Suns" by Heppenheiner, and 11 issues of
"Space Frontiers: The Resource Journal of Spaceflight." Only one day
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"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.

I once used it to make some estimates on what would happen in case
of a thermonuclear attack on Los Angeles and found out why the
Russians liked multiple warheads instead of one big warhead.

Mike Walsh


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Old May 31st 04, 03:29 AM
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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.
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"The keywords for tonight are Caution and Flammability."
JFK, _Bubba Ho Tep_
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Old May 31st 04, 09:10 PM
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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
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Old May 31st 04, 09:26 PM
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In article ,
Ian Stirling writes:
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


Naw - if it's really good, you toss a bit of grass/paper in the air
when you see the flash, measure its displacement when the shock hits
by eye, and do it in your head. While keeping ahead of the crowd, as
in "If you see me running, try to keep up."

(Worked for Ed Teller at Alamagordo. And not only was he faster than
the Data Reduction folks with all their slide rules & Analyzers, he
was more accurate, as well.)

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bad measures. -- Daniel Webster
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Old May 31st 04, 09:34 PM
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In article ,
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.
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"The keywords for tonight are Caution and Flammability."
JFK, _Bubba Ho Tep_
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Old May 31st 04, 10:18 PM
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On 31 May 2004 16:34:37 -0400, James Nicoll wrote:
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.


Not to mention by measuring the time it takes the flash to reach second
brightness peak, though this would only be readily noticeable in the
megaton range...

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Old May 31st 04, 10:31 PM
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Peter Stickney wrote:

(Worked for Ed Teller at Alamagordo.


No, it was Fermi.

Paul
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Old May 31st 04, 11:02 PM
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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.


I had a copy of it that had a circular slide rule that let you determine
the effects of the blast given its yield and height of burst.

Pat

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Old May 31st 04, 11:06 PM
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James Nicoll wrote:

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


....and I assume you immediately did what I did; crank it all the way to
the top (20 megatons, IIRC) and set the burst height at zero to see just
how big of a crater you could make. What was that again? Around 400 feet
deep?

Pat

 




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