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Comment by saboot

The only upper limit on the destructive power of a nuclear weapons is the carrying capacity of the delivery mechanism.

The explosive yield of the Tsar Bomba was purposefully reduced considerably, the fallout from a full yield test was too much even for the Soviets.

There's always the option of putting the energy released into a radiation pulse as opposed to explosion. A bomb which takes out a few blocks, but whose radiation kills for miles and miles.

parent saboot 6 years ago

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