Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known...
by amelius on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:25PM
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How about some hypothetical technology that can scan space for nuclear weapons and destroy them from a distance even if stored within thick walls of lead and without leaving a trace?
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Re:Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known...
by andrewflnr on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:36PM
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That would be delightful, but as I read it the question was about a weapon singlehandedly rendering nukes irrelevant by its own destructive potential, not in tandem with an otherwise pretty low-damage nuke-nullifier that happens to be invented around the same time. Unless your idea of "destroy them" is to actually detonate your enemy's own nukes in their bunkers... well, that's still a hard sell for "surpassing", since you're either using the nukes after all or just convincing your enemy to take them off the table.