Saturday, 19 August 2017

The monster atomic bomb that was too big to use

quote [ In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb so powerful that it would have been too big to use in war. And it had far-reaching effects of a very different kind. ]

If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
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[by ScoobySnacks@12:00amGMT]

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rezties said @ 12:33am GMT on 19th Aug
Glorious leader will request a warhead a thousand times stronger. And so they'll make it two thousand times stronger, with glorious design.

Only, there's more than one glorious leader I could be referring to, these days.
Ussmak said @ 8:42am GMT on 19th Aug
Tsar Bomba, while scary, proved conclusively that anything above 25+ megatons is largely wasted.

During that same period, the US was experimenting with stuff far scarier, and far more potentially devastating.

Read about this incredible little slice of insanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
lilmookieesquire said @ 3:58pm GMT on 19th Aug
donnie said @ 5:26pm GMT on 19th Aug
The nuclear ramjet cruise missile, I'd say, wasn't nearly as scary as the actual ICBMs that had already just started flying about the time that work on Pluto started. Pluto was a hedge against ICBMs turning out to be more expensive or difficult to build, stockpile, and deploy successfully.
robotroadkill said @ 8:22pm GMT on 19th Aug
Para bailar tsar bamba!

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