DBWI:Here, take a look at this!

I just found a little story written by some schmuck who clearly doesn't understand science. It's about a war involving these bombs that rely on nuclear fission reactions, or some psuedoscientific babble like that--nucleonic weapons, if you would. Anyway, essentially, in this little world of his, nations have built up arsenals of these weapons, and can deliver them very quickly to anywhere in the world using rockets (more rubbish. What rocket could provide the thrust needed to lug such a heavy concentration of material? :rolleyes:) Moving on, a war soon breaks out, and the nations end up destroying each other, which brings to my ultimate complaint--why would nations even build these things in the first place, if all they do is guarantee mutually assured destruction?

And the last middle finger to science is this notion that following their detonation, these bombs emit some 'radiation' that makes people sick. Yeah, while you're at it, why not just outright call it 'magic'?

Do you guys have anything to say?
 
i read the same thing, and the science behind the Theories presented seems sound, if a little Dark...

weapons that could cause that kind of Damage would be horors in today's world...

and i think the reason they develouped them in the first place was as a Deterent Weapon, i believe it was develouped and used first in that world's GWW2 Equivelent...
 

terence

Banned
It sounds as bad as those fairy stories where the wicked queen can look into a mirror or a sheet of glass and see what people are doing thousands of miles away, or have doors open by pronouncing a magic word.
 
Well, before we discovered Handwavium as a viable energy source just before World War 2 there was a time when Nuclear Power seemed possible, but it would have been extremely costly and dangerous to develop.

The Germans for example were working on just such a project, I've seen the place they did it in.

OOC: For real, it's not too far from where I live. Essentially an underground garden shed if you will, not much larger than your average once car garage.
 
I must say the science seems sound. I suppose if you used an isotope of Uranium or Polonium or maybe Astatine it could work. Mind you, I can't believe this 'Mutually Assured Destruction would ever be carried out.
 

terence

Banned
This is all going to end with Mercedes-Benz Kompressor, AMG designed delivery vans, astonishingly fast jets and really cool Hugo Boss designed suits with lots of leather accessories.
 
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