Owe Jessen wrote:

:Am Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:15:43 GMT, schrieb Fred J. McCall
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:Owe Jessen wrote:
:
::Could you give in some applications for the SADM? ISTR from childhood
:80s) that there were plans to destroy a lot of bridges and so on with
::atomic bombs. Why was it thought necessary to use those instead of
::conventional explosives? Aside from the fact that using nuclear
::weopons just for the fun in a friendly country might not be overly
:opular there.
:
:Because wiring a modern bridge with sufficient explosives to bring it
:down is not a quick job. Failure to manage this cost the Germans
:dearly in WWII.
:
:Either we wire them up and leave them that way in peacetime (not real
:safe) or you take them down fast with nukes in wartime.
:
:I guess the folks living next to the bridges were thrilled. Or was the
lan to use it only, if nuclear weapons were allready being used?

You might want to look at the yield of something like SADM. We're
hardly talking about a galaxy-shaking cataclysm here.

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