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.
p160 missiles targeting North Korea overfly Russia, SecDef cannot connect
- p164 33 min, nuclear explosion over Pentagon
- Serpukhov-15 satellite control center 90 miles (no, 80 kilometers, 50 miles) southwest of Moscow
- 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.
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
- 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
p189 DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
- p191 100 US nuclear weapons deployed on European NATO bases
- p192 (missing) President has authority to use them
- p193 Russia offended by NATO expansion into former Warsaw Pact nations (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Albania)
p198 Missile Warning Center Cheyenne Mountain Global Operations Center Offutt AFB
p203 TV Journalist: "These two sets of instructions from FEMA contradict one another" what is there to say?
p203 Los Osos 7 miles north of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, 4 miles south of 4 lane California 1
- p204 "Cell phones and computers that were plugged into wall sockets had their microprocessors destroyed
- Some components in the AC adapter might get fried due to the "antenna" between the pole transformer and the adapter, but the DC phone circuit to the phone is thin and DIFFERENTIAL and won't zap the cell phone. The real problem is loss of infrastructure for the phone to connect to.
- p206 "... submerged submarine has no ability to know exactly where it is ..." Bullshit. They have inertial guidance platforms onboard, probably far more accurate than the missile guidance, calibrated but not slaved to GPS
Steven J. DiTrullio 2021 consultant for Draper Labs after 1984
- Not mentioned - the reason for pinpoint accuracy is to detonate a warhead REALLY CLOSE to a silo and vaporize it.
p207 Russian radar near Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- p297 It was the nuclear weapons that were the enemy of is all. All along.
