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Why atmospheric? Just cost? Ground test or sending it out to L1 seem reasonable.
by galangalalgol 7y ago
Why atmospheric? Just cost? Ground test or sending it out to L1 seem reasonable.
- HenryKissinger 7y agoIn a real context, nuclear weapons will be detonated above ground, and you can't test heat damage and overpressure as a function of distance from the blast, with underground tests.
- flyingfences 7y agoWe already have sufficient models for how these warheads will perform if they work. The question at hand is whether they work - an underground test would give a measure of yield.
- effie 7y agoWhat is L1?
- galangalalgol 7y agoA lagrange point in space. On further thought l1 isnt stable. 3 and 4 are closer which isn't great but trash there would stay there.