How many Tsar bombas(100megaton ones), would you require to completely sterilize south asia?
>>64703872Considering there are none in invertory, all of them. This was a one-off pr stunt never repeated and any still in stock are dead fizzles, by now.
>>64703872Big bombs waste their energy into the atmosphere. Better to carpet an area with kiloton weapons.
>>64703878Couldnt you remake them and use them to sterilize the place responsable for 100% of the problem online?
Twenty thousand.
>>64703872>completely sterilizeAn absurd number. However, even one 100 megaton bomb dropped on say, mumbai, would probably cause the economy to permanently bleed out, and millions, maybe hundreds of millions, would die over the next couple years, and India would probably collapse into the dark ages.To really ensure like 9/10ths of india dead and the rest living in caves you'd want to probably nuke their ten largest cities, making sure to glass Dehli, Mumbai, Nagpur, and Chennai to cripple logistics and industry. For the Three-Gorges poster's out there, the Tehri, Hirakud, and Indira Sagar dams will get your interest. As for nuclear reactors or power plants in general, literally just start from the biggest and work your way down.
>>64703872blast radius scales with cube root of yield. thermal damage with the square root. You'd want many small nukes, not a few big ones if you want turn an entire country into a lake of glass.So the first step is to disassemble your hypothetical tsar bomba arsenal and reprocess the pits into many smaller ones.
>>64704292if you're limited by the number of "free strikes" there's no reason not to maximize size per strike.
>>64704411And if pigs had wings they could fly.
>>64704414Yes, being able to participate in conditional hypotheticals in good faith is an excellent filter between human and human shaped subcreature.
>>64704418I understand gedankenexperimente, this one does not seem particularly interesting since we neither have tsar bombas nor a first strike quota and neither is on the horizon.
>>64704292Yes, but that wasn't the question, was it?F- did not follow directions
>>64704435Technically the question didn't say that we're not allowed to disassemble them.
That's how the dinosaurs went extinct, they nuked a large colony of flatosaurus and the world got covered in diarrhea dust. We should learn from ou're ancestors.
>>64704441SINCLAAAAAAIIIIIIRE
