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As a bonus, you can let it explode in enemy territory and said it malfunctioned ...

daniel-cussen 4y ago
It's not nitroglicerine, it's fucking hard work to get a regulus to go supercritical. No plausible deniability if it does, you'd have to design it totally differently.
- dokem 4y ago
  You just hit it with some other bomb/missile. You think the government doesn't lie?
  - bell-cot 4y ago
    It still won't explode, any more than a container-load of jet engine parts would if you hit it with that other bomb/missile.
    - dokem 4y ago
      It will blow up and spread radio active material everywhere. Same as if it blew up on it's own. It's not going to be a nuclear bomb. I think that goes without saying..
      - bergenty 4y ago
        If you’re doing straight up war crime level things it’s much easier to just go the biological or chemical route with the added benefit of not making the land completely unusable for millennia.
      - daniel-cussen 4y ago
        That's the Hollywood view, you're getting that from a movie. Get it from the books, I recommend Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Turing Cathedral.
    - Vladimof 4y ago
      > bell-cot - It still won't explode, any more than a container-load of jet engine parts would if you hit it with that other bomb/missile. Anything that you hit with a bomb would explode... that's the definition of a bomb... and it would spread radioactive material (in this case).
- Vladimof 4y ago
  thanks for telling me that it is not nitroglycerine... as if I didn't know... I could make nitroglycerine to spread radioactive material though (you only need a couple of ingredients (3))... I would go for nitrocellulose though...
bell-cot 4y ago
A modern military has a lot of scarce / complex / expensive equipment that it could crash / set fire to / try to explode in enemy territory. In movies, that looks really cool. In the real world, that's why armed forces carry all those cheap (at least relatively) bullets / bombs / shells / etc. into enemy territory.

It's not nitroglicerine, it's fucking hard work to get a regulus to go supercritical. No plausible deniability if it does, you'd have to design it totally differently.

dokem 4y ago
You just hit it with some other bomb/missile. You think the government doesn't lie?
- bell-cot 4y ago
  It still won't explode, any more than a container-load of jet engine parts would if you hit it with that other bomb/missile.
  - dokem 4y ago
    It will blow up and spread radio active material everywhere. Same as if it blew up on it's own. It's not going to be a nuclear bomb. I think that goes without saying..
    - bergenty 4y ago
      If you’re doing straight up war crime level things it’s much easier to just go the biological or chemical route with the added benefit of not making the land completely unusable for millennia.
    - daniel-cussen 4y ago
      That's the Hollywood view, you're getting that from a movie. Get it from the books, I recommend Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Turing Cathedral.
  - Vladimof 4y ago
    > bell-cot - It still won't explode, any more than a container-load of jet engine parts would if you hit it with that other bomb/missile. Anything that you hit with a bomb would explode... that's the definition of a bomb... and it would spread radioactive material (in this case).
Vladimof 4y ago
thanks for telling me that it is not nitroglycerine... as if I didn't know... I could make nitroglycerine to spread radioactive material though (you only need a couple of ingredients (3))... I would go for nitrocellulose though...

bell-cot 4y ago

A modern military has a lot of scarce / complex / expensive equipment that it could crash / set fire to / try to explode in enemy territory. In movies, that looks really cool. In the real world, that's why armed forces carry all those cheap (at least relatively) bullets / bombs / shells / etc. into enemy territory.