Mu Feng looked at the results and data, let out a long breath again, and then tried another way to use the fusion weapon - a touchdown explosion.

If the target is the population and social wealth of the other party, the best way to detonate it is an air explosion, and the air explosion will basically not produce radiation dust.

If you want to accurately destroy special facilities that are located underground, or are particularly heavily protected, such as missile silos, you need to use contact detonation.

The mushroom cloud formed by the groundbreaking explosion will throw various dust particles on the ground into the air, scatter and fall back to the ground, becoming a large-scale radiation dust.

Based on this principle, a large-yield three-way bomb is used to detonate on the ground to create as much radiation as possible to kill a large area and sparsely populated areas with the help of the monsoon.

In the 2006 book "China's Nuclear Forces and the U.S. Nuclear Warfare Plan" published by two U.S. think tanks, it was assumed that China would use a 4 million ton yield warhead to strike the U.S. mainland.

The warheads were all detonated by a touchdown, and a large amount of radioactive dust stirred up by 20 huge mushroom clouds will drift thousands of kilometers with the monsoon, covering most of the American mainland.

Over an area of millions of square kilometres, hundreds of millions of people will be affected by radiation fallout.

If no precautions are taken, the death toll could exceed 50 million.

The scope of this attack is very large, but the disadvantages are also very obvious.

Radiation dust is not an instantaneous hard kill, these dust are like powdered poison sprinkled in the air, and this poison is still time-sensitive.

The death toll of 50 million may seem terrifying, but this number is the most idealized lethal effect, which is equivalent to a person doing nothing and standing and waiting for death.

If you immediately take refuge in a radiation shelter, subway, basement, etc., or wear corresponding protective clothing, you will not be seriously affected.

Forty-eight hours after the end of the explosion, the radiation intensity will be reduced to one percent of the initial level, and casualties will be largely avoided if the first 48 hours are avoided.

If we also want to directly attack these large areas of open areas, we must also kill them instantly, which is what we often call missile "washing the ground", what is the effect?

This can estimate the effective killing range of all warheads in the world, add up and see how large the area can be, and you will know how much land can be "washed".

At present, the number of warheads of the major powers in the world has shrunk from 60,000 at the peak of the Cold War in the 80s to 150 million now.

This data is already more than that.

In 2017, the United States officially announced that it had 4,018 warheads, of which 2,082 were deployed and 1,936 were mothballed, and the agreement continues to shrink every year.

Of the 15,000 figure, the U.S. portion is calculated by the media based on 6,450.

Then the calculations begin.

Because in terms of the scope of destruction, the larger the yield of fusion weapons, the less cost-effective, and with the advancement of technology, the guidance technology is becoming more and more mature, and there are very few large-yield warheads in modern times.

More than half of the warheads in service in the United States are tactical warheads of less than 100,000 tons, the vast majority of them are not more than 500,000 tons, and only a few are of the megaton class, and there are no 10 million tons of warheads.

Let's compromise first, all calculated according to 500,000 tons of equivalent.

The 500,000-ton fusion warhead has an effective killing radius of 5.52 kilometers and a killing area of about 95 square kilometers.

This area is not small, the area of the core urban area of a city.

Then 95×436 million square kilometers.

All the fusion weapons in the world are used to wash the ground, and only 1.436 million square kilometers of land can be paved?

This doesn't feel right, let's change the warhead power to 1 million tons and calculate it again.

The 1 million ton fusion warhead has an effective killing radius of 7 kilometers and a killing area of about 152 square kilometers.

And then 10,000 square kilometers.

Even if these 15,000 warheads, all of which are megaton strategic warheads, can only wash 2.28 million square kilometers? That still doesn't feel right!

But there is no way, the result of tiling and washing the floor is so embarrassing.

Even if it is replaced with a 10-million-ton warhead, the killing range is only 10.6 million square kilometers.

This is still the effective killing range of the second kill calculated according to the urban environment, with a 50% probability of death.

Humans within this range can still survive hiding in the subway or basement.

The day after the explosion, except for the area near the explosion that was razed to the ground, as long as it was a little more remote, the underground rats and insects will resume their activities, and the plants will continue to grow.

Perhaps the washed area is no longer able to survive for human beings, but it is not too big an impact on the entire ecosystem, and it is not comparable to any large-scale ecological disaster in the history of the earth.

To believe in the so-called "destruction of the world dozens of times" is completely without any thought.

Either they don't know the true power of fusion weapons, or they have no idea of the size of the world.

Either they take this weapon as a belief and hold them high, beyond the constraints of physical laws, and become god-like beings.

If human beings want to do something to the earth with this little weapon, it is really a toothpick to stir up a vat, and they can't do it themselves.

But for humanity itself, the destructive power of fusion weapons is very terrifying, and the effect of detonating fusion weapons in densely populated cities is like purgatory on earth.

A 10-million-ton fusion weapon, with a radius of 30 kilometers, is enough to destroy the core areas of the megacities of New York, London, North, Shanghai, and Guangzhou!

A 10-million-ton warhead capable of destroying a metropolis with a population of 10 million.

Megaton warheads capable of destroying large cities with a million population.

Warheads of 50,000 to no 100,000 tons can also destroy small and medium-sized cities with a population of hundreds of thousands.

There are 2,876 county-level administrative districts in China and 3,143 counties in the United States.

And there are 15,000 warheads in the hands of humans.

They are civilizations that can really wreak havoc on humanity.

Destroy almost all the big cities of mankind, and destroy the current national, industrial, and technological systems.

After a full-scale nuclear war, only humans in small towns and villages will survive, and they will be polluted by radiation fallout, and human civilization will have to regress to at least the early days of industrial society, even agricultural society.

The complete collapse of the existing system of power, finance, and assets is an unacceptable result for most countries, interest groups, vested interests, and the ruling class.

So nuclear deterrence is still effective.

Mu Feng looked at the data and descriptions, and re-understood this weapon from multiple scales.

Whether their power is large or small is placed on different scales, and the results are completely different.

Ordinary people have no concept of cities, regions, countries, or the size of the planet.

will give rise to the idea that a weapon that destroys the world for oneself can also destroy the world.

As everyone knows, it is only their own world that is destroyed, not the world of the earth.

Humanity has never realized its own insignificance.

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