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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
Weapon yield for the 280-mm shell (that's an 11-incher, btw, same caliber as the German pocket battleships and the two battlecruisers in WW II), was 15 KT. The movie Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie has the test shot included. Note that this is the same movie that at the end has the first Chinese test, with cheering crowds hollering at the sight of the fireball and cloud, and horse cavalry in NBC suits (yes, the horses had MOPP suits and masks) charging ground zero-even waving cavalry sabers as they did so.
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Its funny you mention this movie, I just recently watched it. The footage from the 280mm shot was pretty impressive. As was a lot of the footage from several of the other shots in Nevada and the Pacific.
But the Chinese footage just kind of smacked me in the head. NBC gear for the friggin horses?? How much training did those people think the horses are going to need to not flip out on a nuclear battlefield?
Of course I had a lot of questions like that about different parts of the movie...