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The Most Bombed Place On Earth

2 pointsby geoffsandersalmost 11 years ago

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dalkealmost 11 years ago
That&#x27;s Yucca Flats, a US nuclear test site.<p>I thought it would be Laos. See <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1100842.stm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;2&#x2F;hi&#x2F;asia-pacific&#x2F;1100842.stm</a> for others who think the same. But that&#x27;s measured in number of bombs per capita. (The US dropped about 2.5 MT on Laos and 7 MT on Vietnam. The Allies dropped about 3.4 MT of bombs during WWII.)<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s measured in total explosive power? According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Flat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yucca_Flat</a> there were 827 separate detonations, and if I extracted the data correctly from <a href="http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Catalog" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nuclearweaponarchive.org&#x2F;Library&#x2F;Catalog</a> then there was no more than 72 MT at Yucca Flats.<p>Novaya Zemlya, site of Soviet nuclear bomb testing, &quot;hosted 224 nuclear detonations with a total explosive energy equivalent to 265 megatons of TNT&quot; says <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Zemlya" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Novaya_Zemlya</a> .<p>So I don&#x27;t understand the criteria used to determine that Yucca Flats is &quot;the most bombed place on earth.&quot;