[kj] OT: Tsar Bomba

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Lets hope the scary terrorists who we all live in fear of every day don't get hold of these things!

Talibam!
"Yo Bush, get off the planet or we blow it up!"

In the UK, knife crime is a worry for us all, it really is.

--- On Thu, 3/7/08, Phillipps Marc <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk> wrote:


> From: Phillipps Marc <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Tsar Bomba

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

> Date: Thursday, 3 July, 2008, 3:35 PM

> I think Tsar Bomba is more powerful in terms of yield,

> whether Starfish Prime was more destructive (if they had

> upped the payload) is open to discussion . . I find the

> idea they had no idea what would happen to be both funny

> and frightening 

> 

> >From what I hear the "full strength" Tsar

> Bomba was possibly developed as the ultimate suicide weapon

> 

> 

> Operation Plowshare was an interesting one, it wasn't

> really designed to test the destructive capabilities of the

> bombs but seemed to be hinting at the idea of using nuclear

> weapons in civil engineering . . 

> 

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

> 

> Of course it all went pearshaped . . 

> 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of B. Oliver

> Sheppard

> Sent: 03 July 2008 15:26

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Tsar Bomba

> 

> 

> Wow, never heard of that. Thanks. But wasn't Tsar Bomba

> still more 

> powerful? I don't ask because I have some investment in

> some possing 

> match between the two, I am just wondering, factually if

> that isn't 

> still the case...?

> 

> Also, you probably heard about the US's plans to

> detonate nukes on the 

> moon at one, a plan the US abandoned, (un)fortunately:

> 

> 

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/may/14/spaceexploration.theobserver

> 

> 

> Anyway, weird weapos of mass destruction type experiments

> like this 

> interest, so if you know any more...

> 

> -Oliver

> 

> 

> 

> Phillipps Marc wrote:

> > I see your Tsar Bomba and raise you Startfish Prime:

> >

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

> >

> > "Lets do something potentially apocalyptic and

> see what happens!"

> >

> >   

> 

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