I Miss MAD

[MIGMaster]

For large strikes I suppose nukes would be the weapon of choice, but conventional ordinance may be the practical way to go if you are attempting to eradicate without irradiating. Fuel air explosives and MOAB's seem to have some potential in this area. The problem with MOAB's may be delivery - based on how the scenario goes down.

[LongBlade]

Well, I don't do this for a living so I really don't know jack.

All I can say is that I'm afraid that if things continue on their present course the bad guys will eventually trigger a self-inflicted extinction event.

I don't see them changing course. I hope I'm wrong.

[Centurion40]

I dunno.  The thought neutrons is appealing somehow.  It would really get into the crevices, you know?

[Centurion40]

Well, I don't do this for a living so I really don't know jack.

All I can say is that I'm afraid that if things continue on their present course the bad guys will eventually trigger a self-inflicted extinction event.

I don't see them changing course. I hope I'm wrong.

Well let's face it, if sane common-sense was widespread over there, a lot of the horrors would never have happened.

[Staggerwing]

I don't know if we do or not, but in the Way Back When machine in my brain I seem to remember a discussion in the news about them. If we made them 20 years ago, we should be able to make them again.

I thought the N-bomb got nixed during the early 80's. I'll try a quick google chop:

Three types of ERW were built by the United States.[8] The W66 warhead, for the anti-ICBM Sprint missile system, was deployed in 1975 and retired the next year, along with the missile system. The W70 Mod 3 warhead was developed for the short-range, tactical Lance missile, and the W79 Mod 0 was developed for artillery shells. The latter two types were retired by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, following the end of the Cold War.[9][10] The last W70 Mod 3 warhead was dismantled in 1996,[11] and the last W79 Mod 0 was dismantled by 2003, when the dismantling of all W79 variants was completed.[12]

Besides the United States and Soviet Union, France and China are understood to have tested neutron or enhanced radiation bombs in the past, with France apparently leading the field with an early test of the technology in 1967[13] and an "actual" neutron bomb in 1980.[14] The 1999 Cox Report indicates that China is able to produce neutron bombs,[15] although no country is currently known to deploy them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb#Use_of_neutron_bomb

[Windigo]

I don't know...does it really matter, if you're being nuked, how it's delivered? We're all toast in the end.

Maybe.  The good folks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem to be faring well these days, despite fears that a nuke site would be uninhabitable for centuries.  And then when you think of the thousands of nuke test firings that have occurred in the 20th century... well, we're still around.  ???

You know, I'm at the age where I'd be more likely to sit on my roof and watch the show, rather than hide in the basement and hope that I'll survive it all.  Weird.

You'd get a good show with traks on targets across the Bay of Fundy, until some smaller secondary strike takes out your harbour. Those that argue it wouldn't get a hit don't know geography

[LongBlade]

I don't know if we do or not, but in the Way Back When machine in my brain I seem to remember a discussion in the news about them. If we made them 20 years ago, we should be able to make them again.

I thought the N-bomb got nixed during the early 80's. I'll try a quick google chop.

I think it did, but I'm thinking it's time to bring sexy back.

[Staggerwing]

Yep. I edited my post above. ^^^

[Windigo]

What the radicals are eventually going to get isn't MAD but rather SIAD - Self-Inflicted Assured Destruction.

They will regrettably eventually cross a line that no one will tolerate.

Then they will come to know first-hand the meaning of nuclear winter. Preferably we'll just use neutron bombs so as not to have the fallout.

The survivors can then pick up the rocks and start flinging them at each other, as they have done since time began.

We've You've got a handful of neutrons??!!

Why wait?  The Mid East could use an enema.  ;)

I don't know if we do or not, but in the Way Back When machine in my brain I seem to remember a discussion in the news about them. If we made them 20 years ago, we should be able to make them again.

... slap together a neutron bomb from spare H-bomb parts lying around

[Centurion40]

I don't know...does it really matter, if you're being nuked, how it's delivered? We're all toast in the end.

Maybe.  The good folks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem to be faring well these days, despite fears that a nuke site would be uninhabitable for centuries.  And then when you think of the thousands of nuke test firings that have occurred in the 20th century... well, we're still around.  ???

You know, I'm at the age where I'd be more likely to sit on my roof and watch the show, rather than hide in the basement and hope that I'll survive it all.  Weird.

You'd get a good show with traks on targets across the Bay of Fundy, until some smaller secondary strike takes out your harbour. Those that argue it wouldn't get a hit don't know geography

'parently the Russkies have Halifax well targeted.  ICBMs and SLBMs.  If I'm at work and it hits, vaporization will be instant.  If I'm a home, unless they hit Bedford Basin, it will be a lingering death.  I'd prefer vapour.

[Staggerwing]

Now-now! Didn't Christopher Lloyd make a bomb out of old pinball machine parts?

[Windigo]

@40Cent,

not sure just how many SLBM's the Ruskies have left....

[LongBlade]

@40Cent,

not sure just how many SLBM's the Ruskies have left....

Yeah, I posted an article where they tried to burn one of their subs to the waterline just last year...

[Centurion40]

Ultimately, I'm not even worried about Ruskie ICBMs, to be honest.

[Gusington]

The way this thread is going I am going to start duck and cover drills at home. Everything old is new again! Why can't we just go even further back and decide things with dreadnoughts? So much more civilized.