On 06 Jan 2009 01:05:23 GMT, Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

The Neocons are just itching to begin deploying so-called tactical
nukes, maybe against Iran. I'm rather surprised they haven't yet. But,
in any case, as a technical matter, they would not have gotten the job
done in Tora Bora.

I said "nuke," singular. One medium sized nuke, 20 megaton for example,
would have vaporized the entire mountain and turned the region into a
sheet of glass.

Nope.
BTW, a "20 megaton" is not a "medium sized nuke".
The Hiroshima bomb was ~ a 20 Kiloton one. Kilo, not mega.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
[
The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage hydrogen bomb with a yield of about 50
megatons. This is equivalent to ten times the amount of all the explosives used
in World War II combined, including the Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs that
destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
]
"the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the
Soviet Union"
--
Cliff