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Nuclear War
A Scenario . Anne M. Jacobsen . 2024 . Bvtn. Lib. 355.0217 JAC
- Second checkout 2025 August; forgot to write notes the first time
pxii-xvi 47 interviews, including Richard Garwin d2025, William J. Perry, Leon Panetta, Frank von Hippel, Brian Toon, Charles Townes d2015, Jay Forrester d2016
- pxvii 1 megaton thermonuclear weapon, 100M Kelvins, ~5 times center of Sun
however, the largest yield weapon in the US arsenal is the 475KT W88, 400 produced, yield similar to the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite
W54 tactical nuclear warhead, 10T to 1KT, 51 lb, 11in diam, 16in long
p008 Setsuko Thurlow nytimes 2020
- Nobel Peace Prize, Virginia husband James Thurlow, interracial marriages prohibited in VA, moved to Toronto
still alive 2025 (?) 75 min video
- p013 third bomb ready to ship, material for 4th bomb by end of August
- p016 weapon count: 1947:13 1948: 50 1949: 170
p017 Richard Garwin Super Ivy Mike November 1952
p020 US nuclear stockpile graph
- peak stockpile 31,000 1967, peak deployment 12,000 1987, 2024 estimate 3708
p033 SIBRS Space Based Infrared System
p043 Clear Space Force Station central Alaska
p047 STRATCOM
- p048 Global Operations Center
- p053 1600 seconds from Soviet launch to US detonation
p056 photo of 2019 flood at Offutt Air Force Base
p059 Launch On Warning
- p064 the president is entirely uninformed about waging nuclear war
p068 Hwasong-17 RD-250 rocket engine probably stolen from Russia
p073 Ground-Based Midcourse Defense failed
p077 SBX sea based radar
- p089 400 1-warhead ICBMs, 66 bombers with multiple warheads, 14 nuclear subs with 20 4-warhead SLBMs
p099 B-2 stealth bomber B61-12 (400kT?) bunker buster gravity bomb
p103 Pedialyte
p105 Raven Rock Mountain Complex Site R, 70mi northwest of White House, Blue Ridge Summit PA
p109 National Military Command Center not deep underground
p109 William Perry ... democracy gone ... military rule, imposssible to undo
- p117 NK: 2003 Plutonium production, 2006 first test, 2009 second test, 2016 thermonuclear weapons, 2017 ICBM
p124 NK SLBM aimed at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
- p127 Devil's Scenario
- p133 82 warheads launched at North Korea
- WHY NOT WAIT? Call the Russians and let THEM clean North Korea off the map
- p143 rancher uploads phone video of Diablo Canyon mushroom cloud
p144 X "overloaded and shuts down" Gregory Touhill ... no, it just gets really slow and sporadic
p153 Tundra satellite inaccurate
p154 Electromagnetic Pulse destroys helicopter electronic systems, crash??? No, controls are hydraulic.
