Dr. Leuren Moret writes about nuclear weapons issues in the “Currents“ section of her website.
Compare the Tianjin crater to the crater in Donetsk, Ukraine where they had a mini-nuke dropped on them.
See – article by Dr. Leuren Moret on the NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK ON DONETSK
http://leurenmoret.info/currents/donetsk-nuclear-explosion-/index.html
(article has sources).
She says, ” … the Ukraine govt troops hit the main city with on Feb. 8 with a Donetsk Toch-U 10 kt nuclear missile. I took information from the nuke bible – Glasstone on Nuclear Weapons [ PDF] – it’s even on Chinese military sites.
This has a section on the parameters of a nuclear weapon from Glasstone, I used that to estimate from the reports on shock wave, seismic fingerprint, fallout, distance felt/heard, frames from security cam tapes confirming all indications of a nuke event etc. “.
In that attack:
“The TOCHKA-U short-range Soviet era missile can be armed with a conventional warhead (crater on left), nuclear warhead (crater on right), or biological warhead. The width of the nuclear crater is about 5 times wider than for conventional warhead, and depth of crater from a nuclear warhead is about twice as deep.”
On measuring radiation from countries outside China after the Tianjin blasts she says,
“The countries measuring it (nearly all of them) will not report it.
The US will pressure them not to. Also the prompt appearance of the IAEA within a day of the explosion is a very imporant indicator that it was a nuclear event. They will be mum too.
If we could get some scientists to compare the rad levels right after the explosion to the rad levels now, we could tell if it was a fission event or a neutron event. The fission event produces nearly 2000 different isotopes and that have a long lingering effect (neutrons in a chemical explosion destabilize the nucleus causing the core material – U or PU – to fragnent to tear apart producing the fission products). The neutron event causes neutron activation products to form that become radioactive from electrons in the shells jumping to higher shells then release the extra energy from the explosion and they fall back to original shell and lose the radioactivity. And the neutron bombs have a pulsing after a fissioning event – Fukushima kept blowing up, neutron pulse, blowing up, neutron pulse.
To gauge the magnitude of the detonation checking the size of the crater can indicate the kt equiv. of the bomb. But the soil or rock type has to be considered. Also a surface or mid-air burst has a different yield than a buried one. The burial depth makes a HUGE difference in the bang for you buck. A bomb that detonates at about 6′-8′ feet deep releases 10X more energy than an air or surface because of the coupling with ground waves. Below 6-8′ the yield decreases and the bomb cannot penetrate more than 32′.”
[ check this post later for more – FC ]
Clarification on nukes vs mini-nukes:
A nuclear weapon kt equivalent, that is subject to international laws and treaties governing.restricting their use/banning, is anything over 5 kt equivalent TNT yield.
All nuclear weapons that are 5 kt and under are defined as “mini-nucs” that went into full development and use in about 2002 and earlier – I went to the Regents meetings of the Univ. of Calif. and watched it all happen. Mini-nucs do not release a mushroom cloud – but a smoke column instead – so they are not identifiable by the characteristic mushroom cloud of larger nucs. They are also exempt from all international treaties and agreements restricting the use of nuclear weapons. For that reason their use on the battlefield is controlled by the military commanders who have no higher oversight or accountability.
They are also the most efficient form of nuclear warfare because all of the rad is restricted and concentrated in a small area, unlike larger nukes. So they are launching them from howitzers that were quietly modified in the 1990’s to launch mini-nukes. The military is firing them directly into residential areas of cities in Iraq etc. Some of them are fission devices, and some are neutron warheads. It is the worst kind of nuclear warfare possible, and now from Fukushima, we see that nuclear power plants are weaponized and used as nuclear attacks when they have “accidents”.
– From Leuren Moret
Glasstone and Dolen, eds: Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd ed.,
U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy, Washington, DC., 1977
Alt. link to download and read the doc. – http://www.scribd.com/book/206627078
ADDITIONAL
We found this document with crater descriptions,
“The Effects of Nuclear War“, May 1979.
(“crater” is discussed on p. 24, 33 and 41 in the document – FC)
and
Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer – http://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/.
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