You know....I get a kick out off all the goof balls that are howling about the FALLOUT from Paki and Indian bombs drifting all over the place and Contaminating the WHOLE WORLD.
Get a clue guys, If they are smart enough to build ATOMIC WEAPONS, they are smart enough to build a SIMPLE RADAR ALTIMITER,and AIRBURST THE GREAT MAJORITY OF TARGETS.
Other than a couple of command and weapons bunkers 95% of all targets hit in a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India, would be airburst targets.
Ground bursts are inefficent and waste a huge amount of energy digging a big crater in the ground. The Earth from this crator is irradiated and comes back down as FALLOUT.
Airbursts use a terrible economy of energy, in that, they are detonated at altitude, spreading the blast and themal effect over more than twice the area of a ground burst. Handy for hunting down mobile missle lauchers, airfields and of course cities. And of course the good part, AIRBURSTS PRODUCE VERY LITTLE FALLOUT because the do not suck up all that earth into the mushroom cloud.
Does anybody really think that the Indians or the Pakis have A-Bombs with a detonator that goes off on impact with the ground, sticking out of the end of the bomb casing like some U.S. Civil war cannon ball.
I dunno, maybe it makes people on this board feel better to just assume that the enemy is so stupid that they would irradiate themselves in the process of doing this awful thing, they are about to do.
I think it makes us feel better, to paint the these countries as mindless primatives with nuclear weapons made of stone knives and bearskins....Like the Flintstones with NUKES.
Actualy the Indians are Writing a huge hunk of the worlds softwear and Silicone valley is full of Indian Engineers.
I think if you actualy took the cover plate off of a Indian Nuke you might be pretty shocked at just how advanced the workmanship inside was.
The Indians and Paki's have been thinking about nuking each other for a long time, They have studied all of our nuke tests and writings on the subject.
Do 'ya think they Don't know about AIRBURSTS!!!