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How do you know it hasn't been? I'm sure it has. So much money on defense makes it easy to fund massive projects without notice. What will be hysterical is in

How do you know it hasn't been? I'm sure it has. So much money on defense makes it easy to fund massive projects without notice. What will be hysterical is in fifty years when it all becomes unclassified after the new weapon has to be used outing its existence and we all learn that there was a deep state after all and they hid the existence of the weapon from Trump. I'll be long dead, but I would have enjoyed it immensely. What would be even better is an announcement like, "The US has voluntarily destroyed all of its nuclear weapons and generators and welcomes the world to verify there is no longer any massively fisionable matter anywhere in the country. Also, along with this announcement we have constructed a 600 mile long accelerator which can instantly detect and detonate any such material found anywhere in the world, instantly. Everyone's nuclear weapons are now their own worst nightmare and we encourage all countries to rid themselves of such weapons as quickly as possible. Starting with you, Russia." Can you imagine?

belter 5y ago
It would be a great Netflix series...but in real life I think would have to be a combination of - Neutrino accelerators. - EMP weapons. - Human Engineering. - Espionage. - Real time tracking 24/7 of the location of government officials that could give such order. - A type of SEAL Team 6 team ready to go anywhere and disable them. - Most important you need an EMP solution to disable Nuclear submarines.
- russellbeattie 5y ago
  I was thinking about how the detection system would work. We'd send up a bunch of satellites with specific detectors on them, then we send out a burst of neutrinos which will ring all the dense fissionable material like a bell. The satellites then record the pinpoint location of where any of it is anywhere on the planet. That could be the beginning of the novel/Netflix series/pre-announcement mystery as all the scientists in the world notice something just happened, but aren't sure what for a while... I also love the idea of doing it all as a hoax. Like a bluff. We mock up fake demos and then convince the entire world we have this power to detonate any nuke anywhere as if we owned it... And say, "We really don't want to have to demonstrate it for real, but if we have to." And the world voluntarily disarms...
  - belter 5y ago
    Since we are discussing ways of saving the world :-) This method would help to identify status: "How to dismantle a nuclear bomb" (2019) "MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction." https://news.mit.edu/2019/verify-dismantle-nuclear-bombs-0927 https://news.mit.edu/2019/verify-dismantle-nuclear-bombs-092...

belter 5y ago

It would be a great Netflix series...but in real life I think would have to be a combination of - Neutrino accelerators. - EMP weapons. - Human Engineering. - Espionage. - Real time tracking 24/7 of the location of government officials that could give such order. - A type of SEAL Team 6 team ready to go anywhere and disable them. - Most important you need an EMP solution to disable Nuclear submarines.

russellbeattie 5y ago
I was thinking about how the detection system would work. We'd send up a bunch of satellites with specific detectors on them, then we send out a burst of neutrinos which will ring all the dense fissionable material like a bell. The satellites then record the pinpoint location of where any of it is anywhere on the planet. That could be the beginning of the novel/Netflix series/pre-announcement mystery as all the scientists in the world notice something just happened, but aren't sure what for a while... I also love the idea of doing it all as a hoax. Like a bluff. We mock up fake demos and then convince the entire world we have this power to detonate any nuke anywhere as if we owned it... And say, "We really don't want to have to demonstrate it for real, but if we have to." And the world voluntarily disarms...
- belter 5y ago
  Since we are discussing ways of saving the world :-) This method would help to identify status: "How to dismantle a nuclear bomb" (2019) "MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction." https://news.mit.edu/2019/verify-dismantle-nuclear-bombs-0927 https://news.mit.edu/2019/verify-dismantle-nuclear-bombs-092...