Airbusts

[pmulcahy11b]

The truck is the Alvis Stalwart.

Another interesting thing about nuclear blasts (or even large FAE or thermobaric blasts) is that they produce two shock waves. One is from the initial burst, when the air at ground zero is blown out; the other happens about a second later, as all that air that was blown out rushes back in to the low pressure area caused by the first shock wave.

[headquarters]

please check the BBC made "The Wargame" -it was so realistic that the British authorities hasd severe issues about allowing its broadcast .It portrays a nuclear attack on Britain in meticulous detail -including technical descriptions and aftermath results -imagery is very disturbing though .

Highly recommended!

[Marc]

Originally Posted by headquarters

please check the BBC made "The Wargame" -it was so realistic that the British authorities hasd severe issues about allowing its broadcast .It portrays a nuclear attack on Britain in meticulous detail -including technical descriptions and aftermath results -imagery is very disturbing though .

Highly recommended!

I've annotated it. Although I must recognize that this kind of material always makes my hair stand on end...

[Legbreaker]

If you're concerned you might be overdoing the damage 30-35 km from Warsaw, there's an easy solution.
Many, many tactical nukes were used during the war in many many places. Just because Warsaw received three warheads in 1997 doesn't mean the countryside within 50km wasn't pockmarked with small nukes over the preceeding and subsequent months, or even years.
Just take a look at the encounter tables and you'll note that "crater" can be found almost anywhere that's not currently being fought over or has a large military unit camped nearby.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Many, many tactical nukes were used during the war in many many places. Just because Warsaw received three warheads in 1997 doesn't mean the countryside within 50km wasn't pockmarked with small nukes over the preceeding and subsequent months, or even years.

True. And it says in the Black Madonna module that when NATO forces withdrew from Czechostowa they engaged in their own little piece of scorched earth policy by deploying a number of "backpack" nuclear demolition charges. They may well have deployed similar weapons in other parts of Poland.

One of the entries in the rumour tables in the Black Madonna module suggests that one of those charges failed to detonate and was never recovered by NATO forces. In my campaign that rumour was accurate and the nuke ended up in the mad Major's treasure hoard in the catacombs beneath the Jazna Gora. It was that nuke that Major Po's team used to obliterate Warsaw Pact Reserve Front HQ at Lublin, thereby cementing the NATO-WarPac stalemate in Poland. For me that infiltration mission involved the most intense and enjoyable gaming sessions of the entire campaign.

[pmulcahy11b]

If you want to get an idea of what a ground burst can do, look at Meteor Crater in Arizona (also called Barringer Crater). That meteor hit with an estimated blast strength of 10 Mt.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

If you want to get an idea of what a ground burst can do, look at Meteor Crater in Arizona (also called Barringer Crater). That meteor hit with an estimated blast strength of 10 Mt.

The Gulf of Mexico is believed by many to be the crater the "Dinosaur Killer" meteor impact left behind.