1000 feet underground, low-kiloton yield, NUKE radiation STILL GETS OUT

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Even when detonated 1000+ feet underground, low kiloton nukes still send radioactive gas and material into the atmosphere. The energy and force is so powerful, even at sub-kiloton ranges, that radiation gets into the atmosphere and leaks out.

Two tests by our government prove this: The tests were conducted in New Mexico and at the Nevada Test Site: Operation Hardtack II (http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/hardtack2/index.html) and Operation Nougat (http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/nougat/index.html).

Here are some tests/results:

TEST: Gnome
Time: 19:00.00.00 10-Dec-61
Location: Carlsbad, NM
Placement: Shaft
Depth: -1184
Yield: 3.1Kt
Lab: LRL
Project: PS
Description: Plowshare shot, fired in salt dome, cavity formed was 170 ft. in diameter, and 80 ft. high, some radiation accidentally released and detected off-site

Test: Blanca
Time: 15:00.00.0 30 October 1958 (GMT)
Location: NTS, Area 12e
Test Height and Type: Tunnel, -987 Feet
Yield: 22 kt

UCRL test of an alternate W-47 primary in a thermonuclear system mockup. This shot was successful, the predicted yield was 20 kt. Similar to Hardtack II Evans. The device was 18 inches in diameter, 45.5 inches long, and weighed 717.6 lb.

Although it was fired in an underground tunnel, the shot still vented radioactive material into the atmosphere (visible in the picture below).

If we attack Iran with B61's (bunker-busting nukes ranging from 0.3Kt to 340Kt yields), these will penetrate between 0 and 250 feet (the best results publicly are far less than 100 feet deep). It's almost guaranteed that the results will look something like this on EACH SITE THAT IS BOMBED:

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/media-gallery/video/testing/project-sedan-3.wmv