Recent content by CommissarCold

I just read the Wiki article. Apparently a frontier theorist believed simply surrounding an H bomb with hundreds of tons of Cobalt and detonating it would create/disperse enough Cobalt-60 to make much of the Earth too radioactive to sustain life.

That doesn't sound intuitive to me. I hypothesize that both fundamental mathematics and experimental measurements of bombs of the same type (say, uranium warheads) and payload would have enough empirical data to state how much radiation of some type (say, Gamma) the bomb itself emitted, and thus...

Yeah. A viability analysis of how many people have/could survive and/or how long one would need to wait in a fallout shelter before re-emerging given the types and amounts of radiation emitted per equivalent megaton of TNT per type of nuclear warhead certainly interests those who want to...

I've had this question rattling around in my head for some time now, but I think it'd be easier asking it here than reading several books to gather sufficient information to answer it: I've heard that, in general, the detonation of enough nuclear weapons on a short enough time scale will cause...

Good afternoon. As part of a personal hobby, I've been trying to design a relatively small projectile that can travel at 'bullet speed' (say, a .22 caliber bullet fired from an appropriately sized gun). I understand that the overwhelming majority of mass-produced bullets today come in a small...

:thumbup: