From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha  schrieb:   
      
   > The results of Operation Crossroads suggest that the ships are rather   
   > more resistant to nuclear weapons than the crew would be. WWUU   
   > Battleships are far less than kilometers long, and while the armor is   
   > nearly 5 meters thick in places,   
      
   Certainly not.   
      
   About the thickest armor ever on a battleship was on the Yamato class,   
   which was around 410 mm.   
      
   > it's stell, not tungston. It took   
   > underwater detonations to sink them reliably. The crew, had there   
   > been one, would have been dead within hours, though, from radiation.   
      
   Even an unarmored aircraft carrier around 500 m from ground zero   
   did not sink as a result of the airburst.   
      
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