(April 13, 2017 at 10:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I don't understand why an in air detonation bomb is being used on a tunnel/cave complex. Seems that tunnels and caves calls for bunker busters.
Maybe they had an outdoor picnic scheduled.
It might be not strictly a conventional bomb, but what is called a fuel air bomb, which relies on sucking oxygen from surrounding air to feed the atomized fuel surrounding the bomb, this could asphyxiate people trapped in aconfined space such as a non-airtight bunker.
IIRC, it's conventional explosive - about 5 tons worth, equal to 15kt of TNT.
That is, if I'm not mistaken, a significant fraction of Fat Man's yield. How is this not a WMD? Semantics?
