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Originally Posted by Oberon
Well, first you'd need to be sure that it would work properly, look at the Tsar Bomba, tamped down to 50mt and most of the energy went into space. As to fallout, you're probably not going to take out as much as you would with a conventional air or ground burst, because underwater explosions produce a much smaller cloud, see:
http://www.abomb1.org/nukeffct/enw77b2.html
Then you've got the real possibility that what you dump into the sea is going to wash back onto the shores of Vladivostok before it's stopped being radioactive. Of course, in that scenario Vladivostok would be a glass parking lot by then so it wouldn't really matter. |
Well some comments:
- "Tsar Bomb" was specifically modified to deliver lower yeild to limit fallout (the decrease in the set yeild allowed the bomb to be detonated in a way that prohibited contact between the fireball and the surface)
- after the "Tsar Bomb" was built we have developed newer, more mass and volume efficient physics packages, the most well known was for the UR-500 series ICBM (which later became the well known Proton series space booster).
- fallout patern changes from salting and scale/enviroment of a detomation.
- the weapon is essentially a doomsday device.