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What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Nuclear bazooka

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, the Fatman from Fallout is real ‽

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can see it in the nuclear museum (can’t recall what it’s specifically called)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.

How was that weapon supposed to work? "Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces". It's not much of a threat is it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being "too provocative." Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.