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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

• pxi Bolt from the blue attack

• 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

• pxxi highest recorded wind speed 253 mph

• p007 Hiroshima blast damage map

• 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

• p015 Operation Crossroads Bikini Atoll

• p016 weapon count: 1947:13 1948: 50 1949: 170

• p016 Klaus Fuchs 1949 Russian test of Fat Man copy

• 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

• p082 PEOC bunker (100ft?) under White House East Wing

• p089 400 1-warhead ICBMs, 66 bombers with multiple warheads, 14 nuclear subs with 20 4-warhead SLBMs

• p097 "the biscuit" card with launch codes

• p099 B-2 stealth bomber B61-12 (400kT?) bunker buster gravity bomb

• p101 Continuity of Operations

• 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.

• p147 Ralph E. Lapp 1967 W. K. Ergen Report

• p153 Tundra satellite inaccurate

• p154 Electromagnetic Pulse destroys helicopter electronic systems, crash??? NO, controls are hydraulic.

• p160 missiles targeting North Korea overfly Russia, SecDef cannot connect

• p164 33 min, nuclear explosion over Pentagon
• p169 Russian radar interprets 50 US missiles as attack on Russia

• p169 Gregory Touhill says Northern Virginia has 60% of the world's data centers ... er, no

  • statistia says 5426 in entire US, around 4740 in the rest of the world, 10166 total, 53% in the US

  • Data Center Map says 4205 data centers in the US, 636 in all of Virginia, 15% of US.

  • Virginia Data Center Map

• p173 1983 Proud Prophet War Game

  • "declassified" (though heavily redacted) in 2012 allowing Paul Bracken to discuss it

  • p174 National War College 1946 inside National Defense University 1976

  • p176 Bracken 1997 war game, cyberterror attack, one conclusion was move data storage out of Manhattan

• p177 Doomsday plane, E-4B Nightwatch

• p179 Doomsday planes can launch all nuclear weapons (sub, bomber, ICBM)

• p179 ARGUS infrared imaging

• p180 Ohio-Class nuclear sub, 24 Trident II missiles

• p182 15 seconds between missile launches (six minutes)
• p183 missiles cannot be recalled after lauhc

• p183 FPCON, DELTA highest level alert for attack on military installation

• p183 DEFCON against civilian, 5 least to 1 most severe

• p184 Ring 1 4.5 mile radius destroyed, casualties near 100%
• p185 Ring 2 7.5 mile radius ablaze, pine needles and black rubber ignited by flash
• p186 radial inbound winds 200-300 mph
• p187 lethal radiation delays first responders for days
• p188 nuclear flash temporary blindness up to 50 miles away

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