More powerful nukes. Smaller nukes. More nukes per kg of material. Dialable yield nukes. Source obfuscated nukes. Optimal bombing strategies. Interpreting intelligence on foreign powers’ attempts at same.
U.S. military at one time had plans for nuclear rifles, grenades, nuclear powered airplanes - nukes everywhere. As it was they had live assembled nukes on airplanes flying all over the U.S. and the rest of the world, and there were quite a few accidents. Bombs melting into radioactive slag into the runway when planes caught fire or crashed, (Morocco, UK, various others unreported at the time); bombs crashing into the ground during in flight breakup of the aircraft; bombs unlocked, safety disabled, and literally everything except one thing prevented a nuclear detonation in one of the Carolinas. There are dozens of stories like this in Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety the 2013 book, I'm reading now. The 2016 film based on it, I haven't watched.
It's the sort of thing that just keeps getting one upped by the next story. It's surprising, even just mid-way through, that we haven't had one go off by accident by now considering how incredibly proflific they were, and poorly handled.
And the ignoramus in the White House wants more of them.
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Iran's too. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/haggai-carmon/iran-nuclear-sc...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/11/world/meast/iran-who-kills... Another profession not to get into. Thank God my second choice is crab fishing in Alaska.
Nukes are the ULTIMATE weapons, expect no mercy from your geopolitical enemies.
as far as i'm aware india has nukes. what would scientists have to improve on that.
More powerful nukes. Smaller nukes. More nukes per kg of material. Dialable yield nukes. Source obfuscated nukes. Optimal bombing strategies. Interpreting intelligence on foreign powers’ attempts at same.
U.S. military at one time had plans for nuclear rifles, grenades, nuclear powered airplanes - nukes everywhere. As it was they had live assembled nukes on airplanes flying all over the U.S. and the rest of the world, and there were quite a few accidents. Bombs melting into radioactive slag into the runway when planes caught fire or crashed, (Morocco, UK, various others unreported at the time); bombs crashing into the ground during in flight breakup of the aircraft; bombs unlocked, safety disabled, and literally everything except one thing prevented a nuclear detonation in one of the Carolinas. There are dozens of stories like this in Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety the 2013 book, I'm reading now. The 2016 film based on it, I haven't watched.
It's the sort of thing that just keeps getting one upped by the next story. It's surprising, even just mid-way through, that we haven't had one go off by accident by now considering how incredibly proflific they were, and poorly handled.
And the ignoramus in the White House wants more of them.