• Nautalax@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        It’s too big and heavy for ICBMs to carry multiple times over, let alone a drone.

        Anyway the main obstacle to use is that it’s a waste of weapons grade nuclear material to make such a thing because so much of the energy is being uselessly directed to to the sky and/or space. Which is why both sides redirected efforts to firing multiple smaller nukes instead of progressively bigger single nuke

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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        10 days ago

        Wasn’t a thing back when Tsar Bomb was being tested but yeah, I guess that’s totally on the table now. We’re never gonna make it to deep space exploration

  • potter2010@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    What I always found interesting is that the Tsar Bomba was dialed back in its yield due to swapping in lead for some uranium to reduce fallout. The full yield was expected to be double at 100mt!