Teh One Who Knocks
05-05-2018, 11:58 AM
Jasper Hamill for Metro.co.uk
https://i.imgur.com/wBlRTl8.png
A B-2 Spirit, which is also known as a stealth bomber
The ‘Fat Man’ bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 is believed to have killed up to 40,000 people within a day – with twice as many victims dying in the following months.
Now the US has confirmed it has tested a super-accurate nuke that’s almost three times as powerful and can be carried on a bomber jet.
The US Air Force has conducted dozens of tests of the B61-12 guided nuclear gravity bomb, which is designed to penetrate underground bunkers and destroy heavily armoured command centres.
It can be aimed with a level of precision three times greater than previous nukes.
‘We’ve already conducted 26 engineering, development and guided flight tests,’ said Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration.
‘The program’s doing extremely well.’
If the bomb was detonated above London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, it would wipe out a huge chunk of the capital and burn people as far away as Vauxhall.
Only people living in the suburbs would be safe from the initial explosion, although they could die from radiation poisoning.
https://i.imgur.com/U1P1eXY.png
This map shows what would happen if the new American bomb was dropped on London. The shockwave would
be great enough to break glass in the grey outer ring and the fireball big enough to burn people in the yellow
(Graphic: Nuke Map)
The new bomb can be fitted to jets including the B-2 Spirit, which is known as the Stealth Bomber, and the B-21 Long Range Strategic Bomber, that’s dubbed the Raider and is currently under development.
It’s the 12th version of a nuke first developed in the 1960s and can be armed with relatively small payloads to destroy specific targets or packed with 50 kilotons of kaboom.
Fat Man, the Nagasaki nuke, had a ‘yield’ of 20 kilotons, meaning the new American bomb could wipe out 200,000 people at the very least.
Last month, a Russian state TV station told people what food they should take into bomb shelters as the prospect of World War Three erupting became chillingly plausible.
https://i.imgur.com/wBlRTl8.png
A B-2 Spirit, which is also known as a stealth bomber
The ‘Fat Man’ bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 is believed to have killed up to 40,000 people within a day – with twice as many victims dying in the following months.
Now the US has confirmed it has tested a super-accurate nuke that’s almost three times as powerful and can be carried on a bomber jet.
The US Air Force has conducted dozens of tests of the B61-12 guided nuclear gravity bomb, which is designed to penetrate underground bunkers and destroy heavily armoured command centres.
It can be aimed with a level of precision three times greater than previous nukes.
‘We’ve already conducted 26 engineering, development and guided flight tests,’ said Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration.
‘The program’s doing extremely well.’
If the bomb was detonated above London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, it would wipe out a huge chunk of the capital and burn people as far away as Vauxhall.
Only people living in the suburbs would be safe from the initial explosion, although they could die from radiation poisoning.
https://i.imgur.com/U1P1eXY.png
This map shows what would happen if the new American bomb was dropped on London. The shockwave would
be great enough to break glass in the grey outer ring and the fireball big enough to burn people in the yellow
(Graphic: Nuke Map)
The new bomb can be fitted to jets including the B-2 Spirit, which is known as the Stealth Bomber, and the B-21 Long Range Strategic Bomber, that’s dubbed the Raider and is currently under development.
It’s the 12th version of a nuke first developed in the 1960s and can be armed with relatively small payloads to destroy specific targets or packed with 50 kilotons of kaboom.
Fat Man, the Nagasaki nuke, had a ‘yield’ of 20 kilotons, meaning the new American bomb could wipe out 200,000 people at the very least.
Last month, a Russian state TV station told people what food they should take into bomb shelters as the prospect of World War Three erupting became chillingly plausible.