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" The hydrogen bombs we have now are already so large that no legitimate military target could ever exist which called for one." Which is why all of the large
by ckozlowski 9y ago
" The hydrogen bombs we have now are already so large that no legitimate military target could ever exist which called for one."
Which is why all of the large ones have been decomissioned.
Ironically, eliminating "bigger" bombs in favor of smaller ones is being cited as a danger in and of itself. Because the threshold to using nuclear weapons currently is so high (even in the 170-300kt range as they are now), pursing accurate weapons in the tens of kilotons range is seen as destabilizing because it's seen as being more acceptable to use against say, a remote, hardened target.