>A cobalt bomb is a type of salted bomb: a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material, potentially for the purpose of radiological warfare, mutual assured destruction or as doomsday devices. There is no firm evidence that such a device has ever been built or tested.FUND IT
What would happen if say 500 of this cobalt bombs wre dropped on india?
There are few scenarios where it actually makes sense to build these, hence why they don't exist.Strong nuclear powers intend to win nuclear exchanges through counterforce and weak nuclear powers likely understand that building this type of indiscriminate counter value weapon increases rather than decreases the risk of intervention by strong nuclear powers.
>>64195879Jeet ghouls like Fallout
OOK OOK NOOK NOOK>please make ukraine stop blowing up our refineries and pipelines because of a war we started
>>64195857>muh nooks
>>64196082>>64196022The war is almost 4 years old man. This guy talking about cold war nukes is not a Russian agent.
>>64195879Probably nothing. Then 20 years later some weird human-cockroach hybrid would take over the world.
>>64195857No. It's shit.>You're replacing uranium in the casing with cobalt which significantly reduces weapon yield per unit of weight and volume>The fast neutron absorption cross section of Co-59 is poor which means lots of wasted neutrons for relatively little Co-60>At ground burst the dispersion of the resulting Co-60 is shit and most of the blast is wasted>At slightly higher altitude burst the dispersion pattern is unpredictable at best and highly conditional on weather>At high altitude burst the dispersion pattern is useless and the blast is ineffective>Most of the affected areas will be rendered relatively safe after rainfall, with resulting concentrated hot spots easily sanitized
>>64195879>A worthy disinfectant
>>64195857>fund it nigga all they have to do is to just spread a thing metal sheet around the case nothing more the cobalt 59 goes critical at cobalt 60 and thats itthey can use goldtantalumzincbismouthplatinumcobalt is just more common really and decays slowerbut if you want to kill absolutely everything within days to a depth of 80 meters you gonna use gold 198
I didn't do the numbers but by using a rough estimate a "cobalt bomb" doesn't produce more fallout than a normal 3F bomb. You're just keeping the fallout but decreasing yield.Now. If you really want to maximize fallout by orders of magnitude then you don't use cobalt, instead you use Tellurium because after capturing a neutron is turned into iodine Te129 + n0 Te130 I129Unlike cobalt 60, iodine is very soluble and quickly absorbed by the body, not only that, but thyroids concentrate +80% of iodine in the body in a tiny mass that weights only 1/3000 of the body but it's critical.That means you're maximizing the presence of fallout in the body and concentrating the damage in a critical place as much as possible effectively making 3-4 orders of magnitude more effective than Co60 and more effective than normal fallout that it's only ~1% I129.
>>64201905Edit: Iodine 131 instead of 129
>>64201905>TelluriumI genuinely appreciate this post
>>64195879>sanitary conditions would improveor>radioactive salts street food videos
>comrade, the glorious meson bomb will crush capitalist pigs >spend 5 years scribbling math on chalkboards >nothing works, mesons decay in like 10^-8 seconds >boss keeps asking "where is bomb?" >tfw tricked by American psyophttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson_bomb
>>64195857Ridiculous. All nuclear weapons are already short-term radiological weapons due to fission product fallout. Cobalt-60 decays too quickly to be anything other than a medium term radiological weapon, and neutron capture ratio is too low for it to be particularily intense. Why would you trade a fuckton of yield for slightly longer lasting radiation?
>>64195879The world will be overrun by mutated poo demons
