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Targeting Exercise
A military planner wants to design a targeting strategy to maximize the number of prompt casualties in metropolitan areas by using twenty 1 Mt bombs. The main cities in the enemy country have the following characteristics:
City 1: (30,000 people/sq. mi
City 2: (16,000 people/sq. mi)
City 3: (10,000 people/sq. mi)
City 4: (6,000 people/sq. mi)
How would you distribute the twenty bombs, and how many casualties would such an attack produce?
use p = 25 Y / R3
p = peak overpressure in psi
Y = yield in megatons
R = slant range in miles
Hint: An overpressure of 5 psi will kill 50% of the population.
