Re: FT and DS2 Interface

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> it has maps of the uk, with each county coloured according to your
> survival probability if you live in it. that, along with the list of
> targets - my friend who lives in Harwich (a major port, and next to
> another major port) gets hit by about half a dozen warheads in the
worst
> case - and the totally dispassionate and thorough analysis, really
drives
> home the point about how destructive nuclear weapons are. it's scary.

In the 60's, SE England would probably have been hit with 1 MT Warheads
from IRBMs on a 5 mile triangular grid, since you need less warheads
that way, and the burnout zones overlap. The IRBMs had a CEP of less
than 1/2 mile due to the short range, so were accurate enough. 

Let's see, the house I was born in was within the 5atm rangee of a
Nuclear Weapons storage depot, two airbases, an R&D establishment
(Chobham), and a few other "strictly military" targets. So even in a
non-worst-case counter-value strategy, chances of survival outside a
shelter or CRG were basically zero.

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