mmm@cup.portal.com (08/14/89)
From: mmm@cup.portal.com > From: well!nagle@lll-crg.llnl.gov (John Nagle) > > Nike-Hercules was "nuclear capable". Since the Nike installations ringed > U.S. cities, the damage from blasts probably would have been considerable. In one of Edward Teller's books, titled either THE ATOMIC FUTURE or THE NUCLEAR FUTURE, he shows a picture of a group of soldiers standing at "ground zero" of a nuclear explosion while the explosion is occurring. The explosion is at a high altitude (I forget how high). There is also a picture of what they would have seen, looking up. It's a fairly tenuous smoke ring.