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Not really. Nuclear explosions don't mix well with organic life. And humans are often near nuclear weapons.
by stop50 3y ago
Not really. Nuclear explosions don't mix well with organic life. And humans are often near nuclear weapons.
- simion314 3y agoFrom the POV of countries that do not have tons of such bombs is much better, also bombs exploding inside bunkers or submarines should make less damage then exploding on areas where it was computed it would make the most damage. But IMO this will be used to scare the nuclear weapons owners, they will need to invest a lot into shielding all their bombs or reducing the number of such bombs, probably at that time when this tech is possible we will have antimater bombs
- nyokodo 3y ago> they will need to invest a lot into shielding all their bombs There’s no way to shield your missiles from a beam that can penetrate right through the planet.
- Zetobal 3y agoI wonder what would happen to the housing market.
- cm2187 3y agoNope. Unless you take out all the thousands of nukes at the same instant, you are guaranteed to get at least some of them sent your way. Doesn’t take many to wipe out a large part of your population.
- arcade79 3y agoHow would "your way" be detected?
- zmgsabst 3y agoThe path of radioactivity through the missile facility would point at the facility with the beam, because the showers of induced particles would be along the same axis. You then nuke that country out of existence, as is standard policy if governments fear an attack on their strategic capability. You could also, eg, track the facility ingesting that incredible amount of power — whose signature would be basically impossible to hide from satellites.
- cm2187 3y agoPlus it's hard to build a 600 miles long accelerator without any of the major powers being aware of it.
- inasio 3y agoThe cool thing here is that you cannot shield from a neutrino beam, except by not being there
- MattGaiser 3y ago3% mixes a lot more with organic life than full power.
- zmgsabst 3y agoOkay — if you set off a 3KT bomb rather than leaving it safely stored, will they view you as having utilized a WMD against their nation?