Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb::Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.

  • BaronVonBort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly… this is kind of how that might happen? Defense spending and research has always been the vanguard of technological development and then it’s waylaid to private sector development and R&D.

    Once it’s proven effective they can then reverse engineer it to do something constructive.

    Because the US can’t be bothered to find non blow-uppy projects until later.

    • Strykker@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A nuclear gravity bomb is a standard nuclear bomb that is dropped from a plane, instead of launched on a rocket.

      This isn’t some kind of new nuclear technology