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Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Have you not read what I wrote? I have not claimed there absolutely were multiple warheads, just that's it's plausible!!!

Yes I have and to be honest I don't really have a much of a problem with a multiple warhead strike on Norfolk, but I would prefer if it was a plausible one.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

And in the accompanying notes, which I have already quoted several times, it states not necessarily as a single weapon.

And it doesn't state that it was not a single weapon, and why give a list of targets with different megaton yield used against them if they were trying to imply that they were all being deployed from one missile?

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Delaware city, Linden, Perth Amboy, Paulsboro, and Westville are all outside the probable area which one missile can deliver warheads. They are almost certainly a separate issue not relevant to Norfolk.

They are all located in the Middle Atlantic States according to Howling Wilderness. And yes they are all outside the probable area which one missile can deliver warheads, but they are in the same region as Norfolk.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

The part where the GDW writers had access to updated information we do today?
The part where anything more modern is utterly irrelevant with respect to canon?

I haven't seen any reference by GDW that states that an R-36 (SS-18) missile was used on Norfolk, so why are you using the fact that GDW writers had access to updated information we do today when dismissing actual facts?

The missile (R-36M) which you are using as basis for a MIRV strike on Norfolk simply didn't exist by the time of the Twilight War. The reason it didn't exist was because its engineering design was flawed and the Soviet Union scrapped it and replaced it with the R-36UTTh in the mid-1980's and the R-36M2 from 1988. Both the R36UTTh and the R-36M2 were MIRV capable. But even if we ignore that the yields of the later two models warheads were not 0.5 Mt, both of these missiles were designed to hit hardened American ICBM silos not soft targets like Norfolk.

The rest......

You know in this post and the previous one your imply everything that you do yourself. In a post before that you used Wikipedia about the R-36 missile and Wikipedia didn't exist in the 1980's.

Norfolk is listed as been hit by a 1 MT strike. The Norfolk region is a big area and there are many other military and strategic targets in the Norfolk region but they are not listed as been hit by nuclear weapons. A 1 Mt warhead is a big nuclear warhead, it would have done enough damage on its own to destabilise the whole region.