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> Fortunately, nobody has built weapons like this. The cynic in me says yet.
by noir_lord 8y ago
> Fortunately, nobody has built weapons like this.
The cynic in me says yet.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoRelated, there's a concept of using radioisotopes as area denial weapons. You disperse an element with half-life in, say, weeks, over some area, and the enemy will not be able to move through it until the radiation subsides. Don't know if this was ever tested, I've read of it once as theoretical concept (along with a handy list of radioisotopes with half-life ranging from hours to months).
- noir_lord 8y agoThat sounds like the nuclear cruise missile they worked on that was powered by an unshielded reactor and could fly around for weeks spewing radioactive byproducts across the land. As a species some of us are really fucked up.