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Originally Posted by Hawk66
The best statement in the manual
"This is a limited, surgical nuclear strike on a particular region or target"
I hope the teacher tell their boys and girls that there is no nuclear 'surgical' attack in the real world.
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The smallest yield nuclear warhead that was ever mass deployed (to my knowledge) was the W54 with a yield of 10
tons to 1 kT (it was a dial a yield weapon). At its lowest setting it is equivalent to the conventional GBU-43B (Actually the MOAB is more powerful). It pales in comparision to some of the stuff that has been done with conventional explosives like the mining at the Battle of Messines, or the Russian Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP) which has a yield of 44 t. The size of the target destroyed by a W54 at its lowest yield would be roughly equivalent to ground zero at the WTC, maybe that is not "surgical" in today's meaning but that is basically one major point target.
Gentlemen we finally have a nuke small enough to shove up Khrushchev's butt...