| Haha alright, one, I live in Los Alamos, where both of my parents work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the same lab that creates the first nuclear weapon, and the same lab the has continued to create nuclear weapongs for the US today. Nuclear weapons hit in midair by other forms of weaponry (i.e. patriot missiles) would not create any type of toxic cloud. IN FACT, the only way a nuclear bomb becomes toxic is when to the two pieces of radio active material (i.e. uranium or plutonium) crash together, as one is shot towards the other with a precise speed at a precise moment. In order for this to happen, the trigger has to be activated, and this cannot happen from the weapon being hit or even destroyed. Nuclear weapons come from countries who abide by the Nuclear Technoology and Weapons Treaty, so they are all built to precise specifications. One such specification is that the weapons cannot be detonated by anyhting like dropping them from a plane from any height. One could theoretically drop a nuke from space and have it impact the earth and it would not detonate. They are built that way for a reason. A common misconception is that the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, created by Oppenheimer were detonated on impact with the ground but in reality, they were detonated by the internal trigger. that alone, almost completely invalidates the argument that the US is worried about a nuclear clous driftig towads the US when the bomb is "detonated" in the air... |