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How deep can they go?

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HappyPuppy

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I've been reading that Iraq has built some really, really deep bunkers. How deep can our conventional warhead bunkerbusters go?
 
They don't use bombs for that....they send Oprah in and tell her that the sand is brown sugar and let her loose.
 
Originally posted by: BillGates
They don't use bombs for that....they send Oprah in and tell her that the sand is brown sugar and let her loose.
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That is mean. to the Iraq people.
 
Currently, the Pentagon's only nuclear earth penetrator, the B61-11, canachieve a depth of only 20 feet in dry earth. At this depth, a 0.1-kiloton nuclear weapon would blow out ahuge crater and eject a massive cloud of radioactive dust and debris into the atmosphere.
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"Even for a 0.3-kiloton explosion, you would need a burial depth of about 70 metres in dry soil and about 40 metres in dry, hard rock to contain the blast," Wright says. An explosion at the maximum depth achievable so far would throw thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive debris into the air.

Moreover, Wright's calculations show that a warhead of this size at the depths currently possible would only destroy a hardened target buried less than 10 to 20 metres deep in rock. Some Iraqi facilities are said to be under 60 metres of rock, requiring a warhead of hundreds of kilotons, which would cause unacceptable devastation above ground.
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Originally posted by: BillGates
They don't use bombs for that....they send Oprah in and tell her that the sand is brown sugar and let her loose.
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Then, evidently, if they have command and control bunkers buried very deep we won't be able to take them out. Nor will we be able to blow up any WMD's that are hidden under 150 feet of dirt, reinforced concrete and rock.

Oh well. Time to go to the surplus store to buy gas masks for the family.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Then, evidently, if they have command and control bunkers buried very deep we won't be able to take them out. Nor will we be able to blow up any WMD's that are hidden under 150 feet of dirt, reinforced concrete and rock. Oh well. Time to go to the surplus store to buy gas masks for the family.
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I think your chances of having your roof caved in by a rogue meteor is somewhat greater than Saddam wanting to commit suicide in this manner. My advice is to repaint the Caravan. Much more pressing that.
 
There was an article in Popular Science a few months back about "bunker busters" which are used to take out bunkers. For the type of thing we know Iraq has, it would take some newer types, specifically nuclear bunker busters from what I understand.
 
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