Did anyone else see the scare tactic (and inaccurate) show on "surviving" a nuclear attack on Spike

[ddeclue]

last night?

It assumed a 10kT (I'm assuming fission) blast in a 500,000 person US city.

OMG it had all sorts of things wrong with it.

Apparently the clown narrating it has no idea of just how disruptive such an attack would be.

He seems to think the military would be on top of the situation in 72 hours...

:crazy:

They couldn't manage Katrina in 72 hours.

He apparently doesn't realize either that every window in about an 8 mile radius would be blown out by the blast overpressure and the overpressure wave alone would kill people out to about 1.5 miles.

He also doesn't undestand that there would be a huge gamma ray burst at the initial detonation, NOT just from the fall out.

Stuff like this just scares people and then gives them a false sense of security about what to do.

[Skinner]

1. Spike, eh?

I'm shocked.

[ddeclue]

2. Yeah from the idiots who brought you "MANswers..."

:rofl:

It was about a half step better than "MANSwers" but still much worse than "The Sum of All Fears" which itself had significant inaccuracies.

[paulsby]

3. i'll give props to spike

for ultimate fighter. but they should stick to stuff like that, not science that is done badly

[MUAD_DIB]

4. Hiroshima was a 15 kt burst I believe.

Look what happened to them.

If a 1-2 kt went of in the center of a city then it would be seriously screwed.

[ddeclue]

6. Hiroshima was also a city constructed largely of wood and not to modern U.S. codes

but it would be bad enough nonetheless.

[MUAD_DIB]

8. How many US cites are built to withstand a 2 kt blast?

Is that part of the specifications these days? :shrug:

[ddeclue]

10. Um NO but reinforced concrete and steel does a lot better than bamboo and wood.

and certain areas have tougher codes for hurricane and earthquake survivability and all areas have tougher fire codes. Clearly nothing is going to stand up to a nuke within a certain radius but on the whole, we'd do better than Hiroshima.

[blues90]

12. Who cares about the buildings . You are still going to be burned

into ash . Back during the Cuban missile crisis they told us getting under a desk and the draps pulled across the windows would make us safe.

[Whisp]

5. i thought it smelled like bullshit

but don't have the knowledge of these things to contest it.

have to tell hubby when he gets home tonight because I think he believed a lot of it so I straighten him out.

[elocs]

7. In 1966 in junior high school I had an earth science teacher who told us

that if there was a nuclear attack while we were at school they would not keep us, but they would send us home to die there.

Now that was honesty.

[IDFbunny]

9. I'm no expert

but a 10 kT bomb will still be fusion, as all modern nukes are. The reason they make them smaller is that you can reap much more damage with many smaller bombs than you can with one big bomb for the same quantity of nuclear material.

[ddeclue]

11. But this is a terrorist scenario and simple fission devices are much easier to construct

(which is why they ended up being developed first.)

and 10kT is very small for any kind of a fusion device.

[Statistical]

14. No 10kt will be fission only.

In a hydrogen bomb the fission bomb is a trigger to detonate a much larger yield fusing hydrogen into helium. 180kt - 50,000kt is possible.

If you are going to "only" detonate 15kt then there is no need to go beyond fission.

Even US "variable yield" bombs which has fusion booster simply deactivate the second stage when dialed down to <30kt.

[niyad]

13. did he tell people to use duct tape and plastic? or to hide under two saw horses covered

with dirt?

duck and cover, anyone?

seriously, having lived at what would have been a ground zero for many years, I always had the same view as Dr. Helen Caldicott--a nuclear war would be the first time the living would envy the dead.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. No, and I had to look up what SPIKE was.

After having done so I know how I missed it.