> Wouldn't water just dissipate the energy and waste it?
Right there in the article:
"The idea is, if you build a big enough bomb and blow it off in coastal waters, it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."
"Worse still: blowing up a 1-100 megaton device in coastal mud will make lots of nasty fallout. Sodium-24 (from the salt in the water) is deadly."
> it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."
That sounds unrealistic especially if it insunuates a device will wipe all all the East coast cities.
It seems anything they have will be able to wipe out all the stuff they want to wipe out just with ICBMs.
If this ever comes into play it is all over anyway.
Right there in the article:
"The idea is, if you build a big enough bomb and blow it off in coastal waters, it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."
"Worse still: blowing up a 1-100 megaton device in coastal mud will make lots of nasty fallout. Sodium-24 (from the salt in the water) is deadly."