Ahaa, there must have been a nice big crater but they looked for it in the wrong place, the real crater was actually some 120 meters away and these dudes had blinkers on.shiv wrote:
If I have interpreted this article right the S1 Thermonuclear device was in an L shaped shaft that was 200 meters deep and then ran off to one side for 120 meters. (The other interpretation is that the shaft was 120 meters deep). I am assuming the former - i.e 200 meters deep and going off to one side for a further 120 meters at a depth of 200 meters.
If that is the case- and surface disturbance and crater if any should form with its center at a spot 120 meters away from the shaft and winch. The wrong place to look for a crater would be at the site of the vertical shaft and winch. Any crater must form directly above the explosion cavity and if that cavity is 120 meters away from the bottom of the vertical shaft then the intact winch means nothing. It means only what Sublette said 10 years ago - the test could have been a fizzle but a sizzle can't be ruled out.
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(Sorry Shiv, part of the game.)
{Pranav, kindly put all pictures of Pakistanis in the BENIS dhaga. Thx. Here ppl are all browsing with their Attack Sensors on High Alert and tend to launch missiles on whim. }