"bunker-busters"

[mmcirvin]

Here's a short but excellent Seed blog post on nuclear "bunker-busters". The map at the top (from the linked UCS presentation) is worth contemplating.

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[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought most people how knew anything about the subject would know that shallowly-buried nukes are just about the worst in terms of fallout, what with having lots of material around to neutron-activate, and still letting the fireball break the surface and take all that newly-activated material along with it.

I really have some trouble seeing how people who'd propose a bunker buster nuke wouldn't be familiar with this.