Charlie Stross on Nostr: npub1tyeqd…0td7p Larger nuclear weapons were less efficient than a bunch of smaller ...
npub1tyeqdny3n27tlhkzk2jufmemksy8jl4tgal2qcrd62z8clgsvz8s70td7p (npub1tye…td7p) Larger nuclear weapons were less efficient than a bunch of smaller ones ...
I remember hearing about a proposed Titan-III ICBM variant (Titan-III was mostly a space launcher) that would carry 39 one megaton warheads. Purpose: to ablate the air defenses around Moscow and Leningrad—equivalent to a single 200Mt bomb. The B-52 crews were overjoyed; the missile dudes didn't have the heart to tell them that after it landed they wouldn't have a target to bomb any more ...
I remember hearing about a proposed Titan-III ICBM variant (Titan-III was mostly a space launcher) that would carry 39 one megaton warheads. Purpose: to ablate the air defenses around Moscow and Leningrad—equivalent to a single 200Mt bomb. The B-52 crews were overjoyed; the missile dudes didn't have the heart to tell them that after it landed they wouldn't have a target to bomb any more ...