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From Dan Sorenson <viking@iastate.edu>

"patterson,george r" <patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com> writes:

>True. I would think, however, that the major effect would be concussion.
>A concussion grenade has a pretty good kill radius, considering it's only
>the equivalent of a couple of ounces of TNT. What's several thousand tons
>going to do? I have this hazy memory from a mid-60s Army manual that the
>blast radius is something like 5 miles? And the thermal wave can set wood
>on fire at 25 miles? Seems to me that anything on deck will be history.
>If it's close enough, so will anybody else on board.

	I did a simulation back in Junior-High School (7-9th grades) at
Kirn Junior High in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  We assummed at 50 mega-ton hit
at Offutt AFB, (AKA SAC HQ), with a distance of roughly 20MN.  As I recall,
the trees might be afire, but anybody in a building would likely be OK
and possibly capable of getting home to smashed windows and burning
embers depending upon construction of the house.  This was in the
early 80's, about the time President Reagan was shot.

	In any event, it would be a severely annoying ordeal and I am
quite glad the threat is lower now than then.

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