Insane Weapons

[klingsor]

The old definition of a tactical nuke was 'one that lands in Germany'.

 

[Sevya]

Well, the majority of roleplaying games produced in Germany has post-
apocalyptic settings, although the reason for the apocalypse has recently
changed from nuclear war to climate change ...

What, no zombies? Oh, wait, that's the US.

Sevya

 

[rinku]

IIRC, my homestate of Tasmania was rated as the place in the western world *least* likely to be targetted for nukes back in the day. (In practice this probably meant the USSR only had two or three ICBM warheads assigned to us...).

Whether this was actually true, or just urban myth, there were a few expatriate North Americans who chose to settle here because of it.

On the conventional front, the only country who could conceivably invade Tasmania is New Zealand, though if we were to secede from the mainland, the Australian Federal government might have something to say about it...

 

[rust]

On the conventional front, the only country who could conceivably invade Tasmania is New Zealand, though if we were to secede from the mainland, the Australian Federal government might have something to say about it...

Ah, Tasmania is uncomfortably close to Rlyeh, and when the stars are right and Great Cthulhu rises ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsgZ4JXXB8&feature=search

 

[rinku]

On the conventional front, the only country who could conceivably invade Tasmania is New Zealand, though if we were to secede from the mainland, the Australian Federal government might have something to say about it...

Ah, Tasmania is uncomfortably close to Rlyeh, and when the stars are right and Great Cthulhu rises ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DsgZ4JXXB8&feature=search

Well, yeah. But that's a decidedly unconventional threat

 

[locarno24]

But that's a decidedly unconventional threat

Hmm....I now have a mental image of an ICBM with Cthulu strapped to the front.



That said....we laugh at pidgeon bombs, etc, but I'm sure somewhere in the third imperium there is some sort of animal that would be quite viable to load into a missile as a WMD (a 'normal sized' animal, not the obvious ones of viruses, bacteria and fungi).

 

[rinku]

Anyway, just checked the location of Rlyeh, and Great Cthulhu has to go through New Zealand to get to us. Plus Chile is much closer (and populous). We are a standard jumping-off point for Antarctic exploration - Mountains of Madness may be more relevant

 

[Captain Jonah]

But that's a decidedly unconventional threat

Hmm....I now have a mental image of an ICBM with Cthulu strapped to the front.

Don't you mean a Chtulhu with an ICMB straped to him/it. He is a bit big

Hey I used to live in the blast zone of a Sov Strategic Target. It was classified as a tank factory because it had been used to build lorrys and those crap cruiser tanks used in Africa in WW2. We used to joke about it in school when we found out

 

[rust]

Hmm....I now have a mental image of an ICBM with Cthulu strapped to the front.

Well, at least the USA has prepared for such an attack, although the de-
tails remain slightly unclear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfXuk6aWJc

 

[Captain Jonah]

Hmm....I now have a mental image of an ICBM with Cthulu strapped to the front.

Well, at least the USA has prepared for such an attack, although the de-
tails remain slightly unclear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfXuk6aWJc

Very good.

A Department of Homeland Security bill being put through was that Congress, the comments frrom 1:10 onwards: Giant size, otherworldly strength, beyond our worst nightmares. Oh and the comment earlier about casualties exceeding 80% of population. :shock:

Still I guess the US airforce and its secret masters the Greys and thier secret masters the great old ones will be pitching in to fight the old enemy Chuckles.

 

[silburnl]

If on the other hand, its used to accelerate radioactive decay to get rid of it quicker, then all that radiation would be released within a shorter time-frame, which would be hazardous to say the least.

Well yeah, it's hazardous whilst you are doing it sure. But once it's done the stuff you're decontaminating isn't radioactive any more.

So move out anything you don't want to be in the intensely radioactive zone caused by the decontamination process, fire up the ndampers to purge the radio-isotopes out of the area to be cleaned, then move everything back in.

Regards
Luke

 

[rinku]

Clearing up radiation zones sounds like robot work to me.

 

[AndrewW]

Clearing up radiation zones sounds like robot work to me.

Good thing Book 9: Robot is due in October then.

 

[TC]

heh, the soviet tageting maps had my home town targetted by 3 50 megatonners, and near by city with 3 100 megatoners and live inside the "footprint" for what was supposed to fall on DC, allowing for inncaccuracy, not to mention the also near by Dover AFB and Philly Navy Yard..........can you say nuclear toast?