• @[email protected]
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      4011 hours ago

      wow, and the bomb only needs a yield of 1620 times the largest nuclear bomb ever deployed.

      • @marcos
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        3211 hours ago

        “Nuclear explosions are inherently unsafe”

        Well, he warns about it.

      • @Soup
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        510 hours ago

        Would 1,620 of those bombs work instead?

        • @[email protected]
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          69 hours ago

          perhaps, though you’d have to dig a much bigger hole. however, the paper points out that the sheer military uselessness of such an enormous bomb would be crucial to making it legal or politically feasible. the international community would be understandably sus of anyone wanting to make 1620 tsar bombas.

    • @sober_monk
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      1511 hours ago

      Thanks for the link, interesting read! I know that a good paper is succint, but honestly, I thought that making the case for a gigaton-yield nuclear explosion to combat climate change would take more than four pages…