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> If you aren’t familiar, look up Tsar Bomba on youtube and witness how terrifyingly destructive a 50 megaton warhead is Tsar Bomba was a one-off experiment –
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> If you aren’t familiar, look up Tsar Bomba on youtube and witness how terrifyingly destructive a 50 megaton warhead is
Tsar Bomba was a one-off experiment – and one designed for some level of psychological intimidation that you appear to have fallen for. No nuclear-armed country today maintains 50-megaton warheads for actual use against an adversary. Instead, planning involves use of a larger number of smaller warheads, and that is already enough to be worried about.
- darkwraithcov 3y agoDo they maintain weapons that would cause the same level of destruction when used in tandem? I am not familiar with modern arsenals. I guess I was just ruminating on what is possible, not what is practical that was my mistake.
- me_me_me 3y agoThat is a dead on take. You dont have to kill everyone in nuclear strikes. Destroy every single powerplant, radio station and port in a single strike and watch them going back to dark ages in matter of minutes. No electricity and no communications means mass chaos. every city becomes a unsustainable trap with no supplies. It would be terrifying to be in a middle of that. A nation that would tear itself apart for self preservation while all supplies are somewhere far out, 'in a place where food comes from'.