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Seems not only would my entire street be obliterated. It'll take out a chunk of the Air Force base. Hm, thats comforting, I hope they took out all the nukes when Nixon closed our B-52 wing

Oh, this is fun...

signed,
Hawaii

jpetekUA777 wrote:Oh, this is fun...

signed,
Hawaii

What was that noise?

Signed,

Switzerland

And somehow I figured you were talking about the residents of Piketon, OH complaints and the plan to turn the Enrichment Facility into a power plant.

Another group of NIMBYs...

Cadet57 wrote:

jpetekUA777 wrote:Oh, this is fun...

signed,
Hawaii

What was that noise?

Signed,

Switzerland

Especially with the Leibstadt nuke power plant about 15 Km from me and another one near Olten. I already get Potassium Iodide tablets from the government because of that thing.

Not that they'd do any good.

helvknight wrote:
Not that they'd do any good.

It will keep your thyroid from soaking up the radioactive Iodine-131. The thyroid gland cannot tell the difference between stable and radioactive iodine and will absorb both. KI works by blocking radioactive iodine from entering the thyroid. When a person takes KI, the stable iodine in the medicine gets absorbed by the thyroid. Because KI contains so much stable iodine, the thyroid gland becomes “full” and cannot absorb any more iodine—either stable or radioactive—for the next 24 hours.

Iodized table salt also contains iodine; iodized table salt contains enough iodine to keep most people healthy under normal conditions. However, table salt does not contain enough iodine to block radioactive iodine from getting into your thyroid gland. You should not use table salt as a substitute for KI.

I'm just far enough out of town to escape the initial blast. Guess that means I die a lingering death due to radiation sickness!

I'm good if downtown CVG get's hit by just about anything under 10 megatons...although the fallout from a B61 would somehow come my way while none of the others would...

Unless it falls on my head, I have the means to get out of dodge... In a protected fashion I might add. A 1 MT in downtown Miami will leave me with a small buffer, but I doubt somebody would use something that large. From what I have read up on, the upper yields would be about 475KT at max efficiency, but that can degrade depending on how long it has been since the weapon was maintained. If it is improvised, you can have a dirty bomb, a fizzle or something that will average about 20KT.

Dirty War

I remember being at a county emergency government meeting soon after former targets of Soviet nukes were declassified. There were three aimed at the MSP area. It was pretty detailed as to yields and altitudes for the air bursts. I don't remember those details, but I do remember the three targets: The airport, downtown Minneapolis, and 3M headquarters in eastern St. Paul.

There were two smaller yield nukes aimed at western Wisconsin. One was aimed at the Nike missile site 12 miles from me. The other was aimed at a missile guidance manufacturer 20 miles away.