You realize that by most accounts the Israelis have a fairly large nuclear weapons stockpile. Somewhere in the 400 warhead area. Thats more warheads than China has deployed (roughly half). I believe this information is from the NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council) who are pretty credible with their research.
Thats Bohemia Interactives masterpiece, which is now ArmA. Codemasters just owns the name. Unless you are talking about OFP2 Dragon Rising... which just plain sucks.
It also depends on how you play ArmA2 and who you play against. The campaign is not going to be the best source of realism, its meant to be a story. If you get player on player battles going and you go against a well versed group of players that know how to use the realism to their advantage then you wont stand a chance.
You also realize the evidence of an active weapons program in North Korea is two nuclear tests in the last 3 year? This has to be one of the most uninformed posts I have ever read.
Bohemia Interactive already supplies a military simulator that sounds pretty similar to this to a number of the worlds armed forces, including the US Marine Corp and the US Navy. It is called VBS.
They also release a slightly stripped down version, usually using the next generation of technology as a commercial game, the current iteration being ArmA2, before that Armed Assualt, and before that the original Operation Flashpoint.
I recently saw something on CNN about the homeless in Las Vegas who live in fairly intricate communities under the streets in storm sewers. How this is better than a cave I am not sure...
Right on! What we in the Pacific Northwest need to worry about is more people from the Midwest moving here, and for that matter Californian refugees migrating north!
Correct, all base models of currently deployed nuclear weapons in the US arsenal were designed and tested before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the early 90's.
This means that their primaries and other critical components were tested, often generating significant yield (fission yields) in the process. With out breaking the test treaty there is no way to 100% guarantee that they work.
Deterrence is largely based on knowing what will always happen. From the criticality of your fission primary up to the President knowing how to launch our missiles and bombers.
There is speculation that the foam itself is involved in compression of the secondary (through state change into a plasma). Though what you say is probably the actual case, that being x-ray compression of the secondary.
If its true though that this foam is so critical then it tosses a couple of questions up on what people have been speculating.
No one said it was efficient. For example, according to wikipedia (and it seems very plausible) only one gram of the 13 POUNDS of Plutonium in Fat Man converted from mass into energy. I would assume that something similar happened with Little Boy, and probably was even less efficient. The force of the pusher plate against the uranium ring was probably just enough force to let it obtain a non-fizzle reaction.
Thats not what the GP was referring to at all. He made it seem like a terrorist organization would rather build a B-61 or some other more advanced nuclear weapon than a design like Little Boy or Fat Man. Any organization seeking to acquire a real nuclear weapon would take a relatively inferior design than nothing at all.
You are right in your point though, the wouldn't even seek a full blown nuclear weapon unless it was very easy to get. A dirty bomb would be much more efficient.
On the other hand if I was Osama and I had the choice between a dirty bomb and a readily available bomb of Little Boys capabilities I think the decision would be a very easy one.
No terrorist orginaization would want to create such wasteful bombs, so the information he is publishing is not very dangerous at all.
You seriously think that a terrorist organization would NOT take any sort of nuclear weapon?
Little Boy and Fat Man were in the 13-20 kiloton range. More than enough to kill a few hundred thousand people in a dense urban target like New York or LA or any other major American city!
Fat Man was the implosion device. It was called Fat Man due to the size of the explosive lenses that were used to compress the Plutonium into a critical mass. Little Boy was the gun-type device.
Yea our problem is for at least one of the projects is that it shouldn't be a RIA... it should be a full blown desktop application and there is no real good reason for it not to be.
With the listeners, the problem is we have to keep so many around because of how the application works... its horrid, everything updates everything so there is a hodgepodge of listeners, changewatchers, bindingutils, blah blah blah that it gets to the point where when we go to try and clean everything up when you close a file that you can't get rid of everything. Not to mention Flex uses strong references in all its own inter-component listeners.
I understand, and having worked either on normal desktop application frameworks or as a server-side programmer (which is what my job description is, so thats probably 90% of my frustration) I find it annoying that its basically a movie.
Our interface isn't unsnappy, for the most part it is pretty snappy. The design on the other hand, thats a whole other story. The client has no idea what they are doing and we have very little play with them for the most part.:/
I have seen comments though inside the Flex framework itself though stating that they are using callLater because otherwise something just wont work.
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You realize that by most accounts the Israelis have a fairly large nuclear weapons stockpile. Somewhere in the 400 warhead area. Thats more warheads than China has deployed (roughly half). I believe this information is from the NRDC (Natural Resource Defense Council) who are pretty credible with their research.
Thats Bohemia Interactives masterpiece, which is now ArmA. Codemasters just owns the name. Unless you are talking about OFP2 Dragon Rising... which just plain sucks.
ACE2 Fatigue System. Can barely run a hundred meters with more than 30Kg of extra gear.
ArmaA2 + ACE Mod is pretty realistic.
It also depends on how you play ArmA2 and who you play against. The campaign is not going to be the best source of realism, its meant to be a story. If you get player on player battles going and you go against a well versed group of players that know how to use the realism to their advantage then you wont stand a chance.
You also realize the evidence of an active weapons program in North Korea is two nuclear tests in the last 3 year? This has to be one of the most uninformed posts I have ever read.
Bohemia Interactive already supplies a military simulator that sounds pretty similar to this to a number of the worlds armed forces, including the US Marine Corp and the US Navy. It is called VBS.
They also release a slightly stripped down version, usually using the next generation of technology as a commercial game, the current iteration being ArmA2, before that Armed Assualt, and before that the original Operation Flashpoint.
I am not seeing what is so new about this...?
This is why we need to be able to establish our own borders...
I recently saw something on CNN about the homeless in Las Vegas who live in fairly intricate communities under the streets in storm sewers. How this is better than a cave I am not sure...
Then no one would ever start writing again...
Damn Californians.
Right on! What we in the Pacific Northwest need to worry about is more people from the Midwest moving here, and for that matter Californian refugees migrating north!
Correct, all base models of currently deployed nuclear weapons in the US arsenal were designed and tested before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the early 90's.
This means that their primaries and other critical components were tested, often generating significant yield (fission yields) in the process. With out breaking the test treaty there is no way to 100% guarantee that they work.
Deterrence is largely based on knowing what will always happen. From the criticality of your fission primary up to the President knowing how to launch our missiles and bombers.
There is speculation that the foam itself is involved in compression of the secondary (through state change into a plasma). Though what you say is probably the actual case, that being x-ray compression of the secondary.
If its true though that this foam is so critical then it tosses a couple of questions up on what people have been speculating.
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw this. Then the second thought was of Kessler Syndrome
It has, its called the Vatican, and yet they still seem totally off their knockers!
Check out Wikipedia, or a number of other sites dedicated to nuclear weapons. The diagrams are all over internet.
No one said it was efficient. For example, according to wikipedia (and it seems very plausible) only one gram of the 13 POUNDS of Plutonium in Fat Man converted from mass into energy. I would assume that something similar happened with Little Boy, and probably was even less efficient. The force of the pusher plate against the uranium ring was probably just enough force to let it obtain a non-fizzle reaction.
Thats not what the GP was referring to at all. He made it seem like a terrorist organization would rather build a B-61 or some other more advanced nuclear weapon than a design like Little Boy or Fat Man. Any organization seeking to acquire a real nuclear weapon would take a relatively inferior design than nothing at all.
You are right in your point though, the wouldn't even seek a full blown nuclear weapon unless it was very easy to get. A dirty bomb would be much more efficient.
On the other hand if I was Osama and I had the choice between a dirty bomb and a readily available bomb of Little Boys capabilities I think the decision would be a very easy one.
You seriously think that a terrorist organization would NOT take any sort of nuclear weapon?
Little Boy and Fat Man were in the 13-20 kiloton range. More than enough to kill a few hundred thousand people in a dense urban target like New York or LA or any other major American city!
Fat Man was the implosion device. It was called Fat Man due to the size of the explosive lenses that were used to compress the Plutonium into a critical mass. Little Boy was the gun-type device.
That thing is a deathtrap... Just because it looks cool doesn't mean its a good thing.
Also there is no way that thing could land at the White House.
Opera does NOT use Qt for portibility, just for KDE as a wrapper. They have their own lightweight cross platform widget kit and abstraction layer.
Yea our problem is for at least one of the projects is that it shouldn't be a RIA... it should be a full blown desktop application and there is no real good reason for it not to be.
With the listeners, the problem is we have to keep so many around because of how the application works... its horrid, everything updates everything so there is a hodgepodge of listeners, changewatchers, bindingutils, blah blah blah that it gets to the point where when we go to try and clean everything up when you close a file that you can't get rid of everything. Not to mention Flex uses strong references in all its own inter-component listeners.
Oxygen.
I understand, and having worked either on normal desktop application frameworks or as a server-side programmer (which is what my job description is, so thats probably 90% of my frustration) I find it annoying that its basically a movie.
:/
Our interface isn't unsnappy, for the most part it is pretty snappy. The design on the other hand, thats a whole other story. The client has no idea what they are doing and we have very little play with them for the most part.
I have seen comments though inside the Flex framework itself though stating that they are using callLater because otherwise something just wont work.
Anyways, better head back to it...