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Originally Posted by Sarn
Do you think someone in the army understands it?
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That's a part of a standard course. I'm not talking about regular draftees. Those are a cannon fodder and they are not supposed to think. But if you have any officer rank, you should know that a nuke can not be used this way, because a navy nuclear blast will kill a few tons of fish and maybe a few fishermen ships in the bast case. It can be used against enemy carrier battle groups and especially their subs, but it won't hurt the continental area. Ok, maybe a wave of tsunami will destroy a first line of buildings on the coast, but no more than that. To be used effective, a nuke must be blasted in the atmosphere above center of the target. Only in this case all four destructive factors will be used: a shock wave, a thermal injury, a penetrating radiation and EMR. There are special tables which show the dependence of all those factors in accordance with the blast's power and its height.
P.S. Actually you should partially learn these things even in your school during the life safety and NVP courses. Here is a picture from a Russian school book to refresh your memory ;)
