hammer down protocol
what did they drop on manhattan?
Don't think the film ever said. That said, I can't imagine the US would ever use a nuclear weapon on it's own soil due to the fallout devastation unless we were in a state of Global warfare, etc. We didn't even know if the radiation would power up the thing or something lol and no reason to start with that given a creature you have no intel on.
The bomber dropped MK-82 bombs which didn't stop it (because it grabs the helicopter after that happens and later munches down on you know who). HAMMER-DOWN would obviously be a higher grade.
The likely case bomb would probably be the MOAB/FOAB (150-300 meter radius) which would definitely hit the creature with a much bigger blast than the MK-82 clusters they sent.
Nuclear bomb like what was used on Japan would wipe out all of Manhattan. A hydrogen bomb would be clear out to Long Beach... Nuclear and especially hydrogen would be immensely catastrophic for areas the cloverfield monster wasn't even going to not to mention the massive radiation fallout.
Not sure how many bombs they dropped of the MK-82 but let's assume 40 in that run. That'd be about 1/3 powerful as the MOAB (and not as concentrated) and about 1/12-1/15 of the FOAB.
Nuclear/hydrogen would absolutely be a last resort, but I think they said in classified files or something in the Blu-Ray ending that the Hammer-Down took it out. I doubt something that size could withstand 11-44 tons of concentrated TNT lol.
>I can't imagine the US would ever use a nuclear weapon on it's own soil due to the fallout devastation unless we were in a state of Global warfare, etc.
Thats because you have a fundamental lack of understanding of nuclear weapons. Its probably not your fault, you were just misinformed by the mountains of propaganda and FUD out there.
A modern nuclear weapon has very little fallout because it is a clean reaction and you can walk the crater without any protection after 3 days with radiation being bellow dangerous levels. Furthermore, a small nuclear warhead currently in US arsenal such as B-61 mod 3 dropped in the middle of central park would have destruction so low you would probably not even be able to see it from outside of mahattan. Here is a link to a simulation: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=0.3&lat=40.7860006&lng=-73.9628792&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&psi=20,5,1&zm=13
>We didn't even know if the radiation would power up the thing or something lol and no reason to start with that given a creature you have no intel on.
There is no known organism that powers up with radiation, altrough there is a form of moss that uses radiation for photosynthesis. We dont know if conventional explosives power it up either yet they tried to shoot it.
>Nuclear bomb like what was used on Japan would wipe out all of Manhattan.
The "Fat man" (larger of the two used) would reach coast-to-coast of manhattan if dropped in the middle of it, but it would not wipe out all of it.
>A hydrogen bomb would be clear out to Long Beach...
Uh no, a hydrogen bomb can be made any size, but using the ones currently used in US military it would get around 1/10th of the way there at best.
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>Nuclear and especially hydrogen would be immensely catastrophic for areas the cloverfield monster wasn't even going to not to mention the massive radiation fallout.
As i pointed out you are completely wrong about the destruction radius of the bombs. Furthermore, hydrogens bombs are called clean bombs for a reason. they have complete fussion state and produces only small amount of fallout from the reaction starter components and not from the warhead itself.
>Nuclear/hydrogen would absolutely be a last resort, but I think they said in classified files or something in the Blu-Ray ending that the Hammer-Down took it out. I doubt something that size could withstand 11-44 tons of concentrated TNT lol.
It would be last resort since and something like that could definitelly be destroyed with conventional weapons in reality, but its a common movie trope.
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