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Originally Posted by Southernap
So what you are thinking of is the Weaponeering. There are a number of books about it which deal with the conventional weapons and I am sure there are books about this for nuclear weapons.
Just remember there are at least 5 types of bursts. High altitude air, air burst, surface burst, sub-surface burst, deep underwater burst.
To me it would work best to have the low altitude air burst against both refineries and oil wells, since the burst wave would do the most damage to all the facilities that would be touched by the pressure wave from an air burst. |
IRL no one would waste a nuke on an oil field. Pump jacks are not soft targets, there are a ton of them servicing a major field spread out over thousands of square kilometers. Juice isn't worth the squeeze even with 1984 stockpiles. Refineries, though, absolutely. Oil storage, yes, Ports capable of loading or offloading, yes,
You would probably want an airburst to optimize the 12+ psi range, although anything over 5 psi would probably be a hard kill, and anything over 2 psi would be a soft kill for a refinery. 12 psi would mostly guarantee that pretty much everything but some vertical pipe columns would be flattened.