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Assuming the nukes work. We've been discovering our stockpiles of arms to be less functional than hoped. And that's with stuff that was tested and could be use
by h2odragon 2y ago
Assuming the nukes work.
We've been discovering our stockpiles of arms to be less functional than hoped. And that's with stuff that was tested and could be used as part of storage.
The nukes were never meant to be used, the chances of them malfunctioning are somewhat higher.
That's before you subtract the hype of "nukes are the ultimate weapon" from any calculations. Hiroshima is still an active, populated city. People assume nukes are "finger of God" erasers, but they're really rather inefficient explosives with simple physics.
- mc32 2y agoYou can’t compare kiloton with megaton weapons. This is insincere. Moreover what strikes me is we have so many people handwringing about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and wondering if it was morally right… but the same kind of people are cavalier about having thousands of weapons tens of times more energetic getting launched. It’s mindboggling.
- foxyv 2y agoA 5 megaton bomb will collapse buildings in a 6-7km radius and then set the entire city on fire. China could level Albuquerque with a single Dong-Feng 5. Especially if they use their 12 1MT warhead MIRV configuration. Fusion weapons are in a whole new ballgame compared to 15kt Hiroshima weapon. While nuclear weapons tend to scale logarithmically with regards to damage, it hardly matters when the weapons are 300x more energetic. That doesn't even take into account the much higher levels of fallout from U-238 tampered high yield weapons.
- baybal2 2y ago[dead]