3,333 times more powerful than Little Boy

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• potter2010@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s probably for the best that a plane capable of moving it is not capable of escaping the blast afterward

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  • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Worry not, they will all be dropped by automated drones or delivered by ICMBs.

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    • Nautalax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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