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Time to unpack Gnomon and Sundial (10 Gigatons of TNT equivalent)
by preisschild 3y ago
Time to unpack Gnomon and Sundial (10 Gigatons of TNT equivalent)
- the8472 3y agoThose are cooler in allcaps.
- sgt101 3y agoIf I were scratching up a way of doing this I think I would rather have 500 or 1000 smaller devices to use...
- arethuza 3y agoA Gnomon device would probably be a few hundred tons and a Sundial a few thousand tons - hence the delivery mechanism for the latter on Teller's blackboard apparently being "backyard": https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bigger-boom/ https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bi...
- the8472 3y agoWith modern nuclear weapons design they could probably be a lot lighter. Speculation has it that the US can now build fusion secondaries without the heavy pusher.