Hi!
Check out the following article:
http://www.newwest.net/main/article...ories_of_the_great_daylight_fireball_of_1972/
Now consider the following: instead of bouncing off the atmosphere, the meteor dips a little lower, slows down a little, and impacts near Salt Lake City. The article estimates that the object was "big enough to obliterate a Denver-sized city with a force equal to Little Boy and Fat Man, the uranium and plutonium bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
How would the country have reacted and what would the consequences have been? Nuclear terrorist? Soviet first strike (NORAD picks it up too late) triggering WWIII? The destruction of Salt Lake City?
ACG
Check out the following article:
http://www.newwest.net/main/article...ories_of_the_great_daylight_fireball_of_1972/
Now consider the following: instead of bouncing off the atmosphere, the meteor dips a little lower, slows down a little, and impacts near Salt Lake City. The article estimates that the object was "big enough to obliterate a Denver-sized city with a force equal to Little Boy and Fat Man, the uranium and plutonium bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
How would the country have reacted and what would the consequences have been? Nuclear terrorist? Soviet first strike (NORAD picks it up too late) triggering WWIII? The destruction of Salt Lake City?
ACG