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[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 57 points 2 days ago

I mean, Oppenheimer at least seemed to regret what he did. Teller on the other hand was completely remorseless and unhinged.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

we should build the bomb to prove the concept, we dont know how bad itll be once we drop it

“yeah but what if we make it 100x more powerful”

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

100x (1.5Mt range) was done and is still fielded (1.2Mt, B83), but teller wanted to make 1000000x bigger one (10 gigaton range). it was based on a flawed understanding of several things in thermonuclear weapons but teller never let it go. the bit that worked was done by somebody else (stanisław ulam)

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

teller also wanted to make it a salted bomb but this is nonsense and not how neutrons work at these energies

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