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| Nov 11, 2020 at 21:31 | comment | added | John Smith | @KerrAvon2055 For anyone interested in the plot (since there's little information online) it's about a billionaire who secretly plants nuclear bombs in 28 cities worldwide, attached to a deadman's switch. He threatens to detonate them all unless all nuclear weapons are surrendered. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 20:39 | comment | added | Peteris | The stop of chemical weapons was not mainly driven by the atrocities of WW1 but rather by the fact that they aren't particularly more effective than an equivalent cost/amount of conventional weapons - so giving up chemical weapons to gain some humanitarian benefits is reasonable because it does not really hamper your military capabilities much. Nobody in WW2 said "ah, if only we had made chlorine shells instead of HE, that would have helped". Giving up nuclear weapons does reduce your war abilities, so that won't get done - until/unless there's something that makes nuclear weapons obsolete. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 14:02 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | This is not true, we can create the required amount of Pu-239 without any already fissile material, quite cheaply (but more costly as we do it now). In particle accelerators, U-238 must be shot with energetic protons, this would produce Np-239, which beta decays to Pu-239 with the half life of 2-3 days. After an initial set of Pu-239 was produced, it could be easily multiplied in breeding reactors, that would be already cheap. Well, maybe the greens would get itchy, but it is only their religion (that all nuclear technology is bad). | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 12:01 | comment | added | Xi'an ні війні | I would have abstained from the word "improvement"...! | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 1:59 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | I tend to agree, but if the OP is looking for ideas then it's worth reading the short story "To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal" by Joe Haldeman. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 15:22 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |