What Would Happen If Us Launched It Nuke

Originally posted by Oliver North
Beyond the distinction between maybe ICBM/plane/Sub-launched and dirty/truck/small-warhead, do you guys really think the distinctions between the possible weapons, such as thermonuclear or "pure fusion", are going to change the global reaction in a serious way?

I get there may be differences in fallout/etc, but the geopolitics should be identical, at least in any immediate/short term.

Agreed. It doesn't matter what type of WMD is being used here, as the reaction will more or less remain the same. Mere lip service in all likelihood.

if US fired a nuke...at least we attacked first

If that happens, maybe big war is not far away.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Anyone who wanted a supply of antimatter would build a bunch of colliders and engineer them specifically to collect antimatter. As far as I know no one has ever tried building a collider for that exact purpose, so there's no telling how much efficiency you might gain, but I think its the most realistic option.

Chronologically speaking, we're lightyears away from building machines that can harvest/generate even modest quantities of antimatter.

uhhh...so Hydrogen bomb is still most powerful nuke?

Originally posted by TheGodKiller
CERN developed the Anti-Proton Decelerator for exactly that purpose and as of 2010, their facilities(which are probably most advanced in this particular field in the world) have estimated that it would take somewhere around a hundred billion years to create just one gram of antihydrogen alone.

Did not know that, neat.

The 100 billion years per gram figure also seems to be the super optimistic version, assuming there are no losses. Multiple colliders working in parallel is an important part of any such production facility, though.

You don't have to be all factual. You could take the Angels and Demons route to an anti-matter bomb

Antihydrogen sure is a bargain at $6.25 quadrillion per kg to produce.

Us produce a nuke? are you asking KMC to manufacture nukes?

You didn't know KMC manufactures nukes? Where have you been?

KMC nukes! for sale?? Awesome, how much.. how much?? 😄