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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Turns out that blowing up a hundred tons of rocket fuel underground will make some dirt land on top of roads.

The ones closer to the silo are probably part of the rubble, the ones further away are likely just buried.

If you want some idea of what blowing up an ICBMs worth of rocketsfuel will do: in 1980, a US serviceman dropped a spanner in a nuclear missile silo. That led to a fuel leak and the explosion from it sent the warhead flying THROUGH the 750 ton silo door and over threehundred meters away. There are some amazing books on the Damascus Silo incident.

[-] zerosignal@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The book. Command and Control about the incident is like 600 pages and it was so good I read it in a weekend. Highly recommended.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I've got the audiobook, which is not the ideal form for a book with two separate narratives, but is still quite good!

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