Challenge: Nuclear weapons are no longer a threat.

Clibanarius

Banned
What it says on the tin.

Aside from the cheapness (One nuke can do the same damage a couple thousand planes can) people are terrified of the whole radiation angle.

So your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make it where the radiation is no longer a threat.

Without any ASB.

And go!
 
What it says on the tin.

Aside from the cheapness (One nuke can do the same damage a couple thousand planes can) people are terrified of the whole radiation angle.

So your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make it where the radiation is no longer a threat.

Without any ASB.

And go!

Are you talking about the short term or long term damage? Its possible to concieve a number of ways to reduce long term damage, but the immediate damage requires tampering with the laws if Physics. Never wise to tamper with those.....
 
Global thermonuclear war occurs. Over the next really large number of years, due to natural selection and the high levels of radiation, the remnants of humanity end up evolving various ways to have greater resistance to it. When an even larger number of years later occurs and intelligent society (though whether one can call it "human" is another issue) has been rebuilt, the radiation from nuclear warheads will no longer be as large of a threat...

Does that make sense?
 
Have fusion power invented earlier. That way, cleaner fusion bombs will be produced that will leak little to no radiation at all.
 
I have a plot line laying around somewhere that utilizes S-Bombs

Singularity Bombs - really cool and they'd really work.

As a very small black hole "evaporates" they release massive energy. Theoretically.
 
Global thermonuclear war occurs. Over the next really large number of years, due to natural selection and the high levels of radiation, the remnants of humanity end up evolving various ways to have greater resistance to it. When an even larger number of years later occurs and intelligent society (though whether one can call it "human" is another issue) has been rebuilt, the radiation from nuclear warheads will no longer be as large of a threat...

Does that make sense?

So what, we do what the Daleks did? :p
 
What it says on the tin.

Aside from the cheapness (One nuke can do the same damage a couple thousand planes can) people are terrified of the whole radiation angle.

So your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make it where the radiation is no longer a threat.

Without any ASB.

And go!
Wipe out humanity? Then A-bombs aren't a threat any more?:)
 

SPQR

Banned
Global thermonuclear war occurs. Over the next really large number of years, due to natural selection and the high levels of radiation, the remnants of humanity end up evolving various ways to have greater resistance to it. When an even larger number of years later occurs and intelligent society (though whether one can call it "human" is another issue) has been rebuilt, the radiation from nuclear warheads will no longer be as large of a threat...

Does that make sense?
No, the nuclear bombs still can cause tons of damage even without radiation.
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This wasn't done by the radiation.
 
If you can make ABMs good enough, then I guess you could destroy any incoming nuclear ordnance, even from SSBNs and shells. But there's still the issue of decoys.
 
The west is moving toward a point where they can effectively minimise the nuclear threat posed by emerging nuclear powers who can't afford a robust and diverse nuclear deterrent.

Things like JSTARS, UAVs and SF surveilence teams backed by standing fighter/bomber patrols with a reaction time of 7 minutes on average and the standoff weapons of the SF teams themselves means missile TELs lead a hunted existence, likely to be detected and destroyed prior to launch and never getting off a second shot.

If a shot is fired the fusion of sattelites, phased array AEW&C and surface phased array radars can provide tracking for much of the missiles flight, crucial for an engagement where seconds count. Missile engagement radars are accurately cued by this tracking data maximising the chances for two 2 tier missile defences. This make it hard for a country with only 10 bombs and 15 TELs to garuntee a successful nuclear detonation in support of stated policy goals.
 
I have a plot line laying around somewhere that utilizes S-Bombs

Singularity Bombs - really cool and they'd really work.

As a very small black hole "evaporates" they release massive energy. Theoretically.

Dan Simmons did it much better.:p
 
I've got a book, somewhere, called "The Jesus Factor", in which a nuclear weapon that was in motion would not detonate. From memory it would either just fizzle, or do nothing at all, and presented no threat as a deterant. Nuclear weapons that were stationary, ie: an underground or towere mounted test, would work as normal, but a bomb or missile with a warhead of identical contstruction from an aircraft would do nothing.

They didn't postulate any theory as to why this was, it was simply an effect they called the Jesus Factor. That would certianly change the format of deterance, but as notted above, still has those annoying laws of physics to overcome.
 
So your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to make it where the radiation is no longer a threat.

Without any ASB.
Well, do you recall Poul Anderson's book, Brainwave?
Let us suppose something like that, that is, we find out that
since the beginning of its existence (at least), Earth has been immerse in some hitherto undetected field, that reduced the stability of heavy nuclei, and that the normal motion of the solar system has pulled us out of this field. Now natural heavy elements are no longer radioactive, and the most usual artificial isotopes are stable too. Theoretically, one could fabricate enough unstable elements by accelerator bombardment to build a bomb, but that would be much more expensive than obtaining the same energy by chemical means...
Now, just which would be the political consequences?
Give me your opinion!
 

glowjack

Banned
Wow, think about it. Super heavy metals and exotic elements would be possible. I can finally be outweighed by a penny
 
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