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Title: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 25, 2011, 03:41:04 PM

Saw this on the Daily Mail website about the last of the large scale nuclear bombs being dismantled.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html)

One line in the article did grab my attention:

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Hans Kristensen, director of the organisation's Nuclear Information Project: 'It’s the end of the era of monster weapons, if you will.

'Its accuracy was horrendous,' he added. 'It was one heck of a whopper.

This thing was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, was it landing in the next time zone or something?  eeek:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Barman on October 25, 2011, 03:46:33 PM

Quote from: Grumpmeister on October 25, 2011, 03:41:04 PM

Saw this on the Daily Mail website about the last of the large scale nuclear bombs being dismantled.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053179/US-dismantles-B53-nuclear-weapon-600-times-powerful-Hiroshima.html)

One line in the article did grab my attention:

Quote

Hans Kristensen, director of the organisation's Nuclear Information Project: 'It’s the end of the era of monster weapons, if you will.

'Its accuracy was horrendous,' he added. 'It was one heck of a whopper.

This thing was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, was it landing in the next time zone or something?  eeek:

You wouldn't need to be very accurate would you...?  rubschin:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 25, 2011, 03:51:16 PM

That was what I figured, but given the number of blue on blue incidents the yanks have had I dread to think what the margin of error must have been for this thing.

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Barman on October 25, 2011, 03:53:06 PM

Quote from: Grumpmeister on October 25, 2011, 03:51:16 PM

That was what I figured, but given the number of blue on blue incidents the yanks have had I dread to think what the margin of error must have been for this thing.

Aye - we're talking planetary accuracy!  lol: lol: lol:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 25, 2011, 06:16:32 PM

Hans Christian   whistle:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Nick on October 25, 2011, 06:30:09 PM

My Great great uncle  cloud9:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: Snoopy on October 25, 2011, 06:59:51 PM

He invented an air-raid shelter?  eeek:

Title: Re: Just how inaccurate was this thing?
Post by: bodiam on October 27, 2011, 05:33:26 AM

Not much good against a nuclear bomb in the hands of the Yanks  noooo: scared2: