"Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?
Tyler Durden
camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 12 15:23:28 PDT 2004
Variola wrote...
>If it *were* a nuke, it would be easy to detect --from Vera
>gamma-ray satellites staring at the earth to optical sensors
>(there's a characteristic nonlinear time-course of optical emissions)
>to fallout monitors, ground and plane based.
--and an underground test
>that vents to the atmosphere doesn't make such a big cloud.
I had thought that one of the main tests was seismic...from what I
understood, Seismic monitors in the US can detect nu-cu-lar tests (above or
below ground) and even guess where and the size of the blast.
-TD
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