• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    26 days ago

    Nah, we can nuke the entire surface clean and not disturb much under the soil. You realize they can easily detonate in air, right? Like, we have bunker busters sure but thats not the only way a bomb can explode.

    I’ll even add we have completely radiation free nukes at this point. Clean the surface and then move in weeks later. Guess they are nnot nukes but some other classification but nonetheless no rads and magnituds larger than Hiroshima.

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      26 days ago

      You’re thinking of fusion bombs. They’re absolutely not zero radiation they just don’t release as much as you would expect given these size of the explosion. But they absolutely do release radiation.

      Much of the destruction from fusion bombs comes from the implosion rather than the explosion. Not that the initial explosion isn’t highly also destructive. In an airbus situation it basically picks things off the ground and flings them into the air that several times the speed of sound. Any oil rig that is already in place is going to get violently ripped out of the ground along with a lot of the underground piping. At the very least that is going to cause a massive leak and probably catch fire. The last time a gas fire like that happened the Russians actually had to use a nuke to put it out.