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I heard the same thing, but instead of a comet it was a volcano eruption that will cause an underwater shockwave that will echo from the ocean floor and meet up wit the original shockwave above the waters surface which would cause a Tidal wave of that size.
It happened before a many decades ago to the super city region “North Sydney, Sydney, Sydney mines, Glaces bay, New Waterford etc."
I'll do my own calculations write now
*NBC = Nuclear/Biological/Chemical Weapon systems
U.S.A'S NBC stock pile:
More than 70,000 total warheads were developed, in over 65 different varieties, ranging in yield from around .01 kilotons (such as the man-portable Davy Crockett shell) to massive hydrogen bombs yielding around 15 megatons.
Land-based intercontinental ballistic and cruise missiles (ICBMs)
The US Air Force currently operates just over 500 ICBMs at around 15 missile complexes located primarily in the northern Rocky Mountain States and the Dakotas. These are of the Minuteman III and Peacekeeper ICBM variants. Peacekeeper missiles are being phased out by 2005. All USAF Minuteman II missiles have been destroyed in accordance to START, and their launch silos sealed or sold to the public. To comply with the START II most US multiple independently target able reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, have been eliminated and replaced with single warhead missiles. However, since the abandonment of the START II treaty, the U.S. is said to be considering retaining 800 warheads on 500 missiles.
Sea-based ICBMs
The US Navy currently has 15 Ohio-class submarines deployed. Each submarine is equipped with a complement of 24 Trident missiles, eight with Trident I missiles, and ten with Trident II missiles. Approximately 12 U.S. attack submarines are equipped to launch, but do not currently carry, nuclear Tomahawk missiles. Sea-launch weapons make up the majority of weapons declared under START II rules.
Heavy bomber group
The US Air Force also operates a strategic nuclear bomber fleet. The bomber force consists of 93 B-1s, 94 B-52s, and 21 B-2s. The majority of these heavy bombers either is being or has been retrofitted to operate in a solely conventional mode. The Strategic Air Command which for decades had kept nuclear weapons aloft 24 hours a day was disbanded in 1992 and merged into the US Strategic Command.
In addition to this the US armed forces can also deploy tactical smaller nuclear weapons either through cruise missiles or with conventional fighter-bombers. The U.S. maintains about 850 nuclear gravity bombs capable of use by F-15, F-16, JSF and Panavia Tornado fighter aircraft. Some 480 of these bombs are deployed at eight airbases in six European NATO countries; of these, 180 tactical B61 nuclear bombs fall under a nuclear sharing arrangement. The U.S. keeps its 320 Tomahawk missiles at Bangor, Washington, and Kings Bay, Georgia.
Iran’s NBC stock Pile:
A stockpile of chemical weapons and a biological weapon believed to have between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons as well. "But supposedly as of 2006 Iran does not possess nuclear weapons"
Delivery Systems
Missiles
Shahab-3 ballistic missile
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Shahab-3 ballistic missile
Iran is believed to have a current inventory of 25 to 100 Shahab-3 missiles which have a range of 1300km and are capable of being armed with conventional high explosive, sub-munitions, chemical, biological, radiological dispersion and potentially nuclear warheads.
A Shahab-4 with a range of a range of 2000km and a payload of 1000kg is believed to be under development. Iran has stated the Shahab-3 is the last of its war missiles and the Shahab-4 is being developed to give the country the capability of launching communication and surveillance satellites.
A Shahab-5, an intercontinental ballistic missile with a 10,000km range, is also believed to be under development.
Iran has 12 X-55 long range cruise missiles purchased without nuclear warheads from Ukraine in 2001. The X-55 has a range of 2500 to 3000 kilometers.
China's NBC stock pile:
The People's Republic of China is said to have an arsenal of about 400 nuclear weapons stockpiled as of 1999, although this number is questionable because the Chinese government releases little information regarding nuclear weapons other than stating that China possesses the smallest nuclear arsenal amongst the five nuclear-weapon states.
Land-based Intercontinental Ballistic and Cruise Missiles (ICBMs)
Although unconfirmed, most Western analysts believe China has deployed 24~36 DF-5 single-warhead, three-stage, liquid-fueled ICBMs since the 1980s (range of 12,000-15,000 KM). China is developing the DF-31, a modern solid-fuel ICBM (range of 8,000 km - 10,000 km) with a MIRV capability, which the U.S. Department of Defense assessed in 2004, would be deployed later this decade.
Sea-based weapons
The People's Liberation Army Navy's SLBM inventory is relatively new. China launched its first 2nd-generation nuclear armed submarine in April 1981. The Chinese navy currently has 1 Type 092 Xia class SSBN at roughly 8,000 tons displacement. A second Type 092 was reportedly lost in an accident in 1985. The Type 092 is equipped with 12 JL-1 SLBMs with a range of 2150-2500 km. The JL-1 is a modified DF-21 missile.
The Chinese navy is developing the Type 094 class SSBN, it is reported at least 1 of these has been completed. This submarine will be capable of carrying 16 of the longer ranged, more modern JL-2s with a range of approximately 8000 km.
Heavy bomber group
China's bomber force is mostly comprised of Chinese-made versions of Soviet aircraft. The People's Liberation Army Air Force currently has 20 H-5s (a variant of the Ilyushin Il-28) and 120 H-6s (a variant of the Tupolev Tu-16). All these obsolete bombers are outfitted to carry nuclear as well as conventional weapons. The Chinese has also produced the Xian JH-7 Flying Leopard fighter-bomber (currently about 20 are in service) capable of delivering a nuclear strike. China has also bought the more advanced Sukhoi Su-30 from Russia, currently; about 100 Su-30s (MKK and MK2 variants) have been purchased by China. The Su-30 is capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons.
Russia's NBC stock pile:
Russia possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in the world. Russia declared an arsenal of 40,000 tons of chemical weapons in 1997 and is said to have around 16,000 nuclear weapons stockpiled in 2005 with perhaps only 7,200 of them operational, and around 8,800 inactive, making its stockpile largest in the world. Russia ratified the Geneva Protocol on January 22, 1975 with reservations. The reservations were later dropped on January 18, 2001.
So with all that said count the numbers there does allot its well over 100,000 armed nuclear weapons on the planet.
But seeing that’s what I could find I could be well off so I’m going to guess and say there are about 250,000 Armed Nuclear weapons on the planet ranging from 5-450 Megatons.
A 15 megaton bomb has a fallout radius of 3000km and has a blast radius of close to over 2.5 kms in size while the blast will go on for several more miles causing serious pressure damage (psi)
The world in size is about:
Area:
* Total: 510.073 million km2
* Land: 148.94 million km2
* Water: 361.132 million km2
* Note: 70.8 % of the world's surface is covered by water, 29.2 % is exposed land
Land boundaries: the land boundaries in the world total 251,480 km (not counting shared boundaries twice)
Coastline: 356,000 km (other figures vary substantially depending on how precisely it is measured, tides etc
divide 250,000 with 510.073 million km2 and you get 4072.584 km2 per Missile/weapon system, then try to divide the between major citys towns and any major landmark and that number can come down to anywhere's to 50 - 250 miles apart for each missile to strike.
This is just if every missile was to be launched regardless to say this is or would be the worst scenario and would cause more then likely 94.58% of all people on the planet to be killed instantly the rest would die from either nuclear winter, starvation, Fallout or god knows what else there would be less then a 1% of the possible 7 billion people to survive threw all this.
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Published by :omegaprime00 2006-05-14 02:09:43.0
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