/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15581026
ELON YES

>>15169346
>whats the best height above ground level for the blast if you want to wipe out the maximum possible number of urbanites?
Depends on yield, you want to maximize the 5 psi zone. Also 10 100kt warheads gives you more destruction than a 1 Mt warhead

>>14813348
you may enjoy Jerry Pournelle's stories written at the height of detente
>The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the CoDominium (CD), a political alliance and union between the United States of America and a revitalized Soviet Union. This union, achieved in the name of planetary stability, reigns over the Earth for over a hundred years. In that time, it achieves peace of a sort, as well as interstellar colonization, but at the price of a complete halt in both scientific and political evolution.
>The CoDominium (CD) is a supranational alliance of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This alliance eventually becomes a de facto planetary government, and later, an interstellar empire. Despite this, no other nations on Earth are given representation or membership. Other major powers become mere client states. It is governed by a "Grand Senate", which is composed of Senators chosen from the two superpowers. A CoDominium Council exists and appears to function as a judicial branch. The CD did not unify the United States and the USSR, who appear to retain their separate identities and mutual distrust. The CD was only created for the shared benefit of the two member states. It does not govern either nation, and each state has been allowed to retain their government structures, nationalities, militaries, and to run their own internal affairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDominium#Setting
it ends badly for Earth but humans are interstellar by then

>>14793464
various nitric oxides. nuclear mushroom clouds are the same colour for the same reason

>>14494710
finding a small aircraft flying 500 knots, 100 feet altitude and getting something in range to shoot it down are different problems however