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Old 5th Feb 2013, 20:00
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Roadster, if you read this report The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 1977: Underwater and Underground Bursts it should answer your question.

It talks of bursts in deep water at 500 and 2000 feet. The depth of burst is of tactical significance. If an air delivered weapon was set to detonate when very deep the time late at datum would risk giving a target sufficient time to escape the blast.
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