/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12731022
Hold still, tovarisch, this will only sting for a moment.

>>11109609

The future is now.

>>9787971

Provided that science is finding new ways to create incredible amounts of distruction never before possible, is it reasonable to conclude it was incorrect to ever start practicing it in the first place?

The largest nuke ever was 50mt, the Tsar Bomba. Original plans were for it to be 100mt but even the ruskies were afraid of that kind of power igniting the atmosphere, not to mention making the escape of the bomber from the blast radius impossible.


Theoreticly speaking, is there an upper limit to how powerfull a nuke can be? Or can you just techincally make it bigger and bigger by carefully separating the fission material in more parts before being imploded and adding more fusionable isotopes?

>>8258702
the cloud basically just rises as high as possible after which it will flatten and turn into a regular looking cloud. this happens pretty quick in the span of 1-2 hours.

What's the difference betwene those two ?