Originally posted by a troll Aarrrrrrr: Originally posted by We Todd: also you have to remember, when the Pentagon was designed, it was designed to resist a nuclear blast, IIRC.
wow. if an airplane can mange to poke its way through 3 rings (iirc) then i wonder what nuke could do.
The energy wave generated by a nuclear explosion is a completely different phenomenon from that of a concentrated fireball 20 feet in diameter.
It takes much more effort to fortify something against small-scale, high-energy penetration as opposed to large-scale structural loads.
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