Yikes! Edward Teller plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the. Moon! Luckily the idea was too crazy, even for the Airforce...
Edward Teller’s “Moon Shot” by @wellerstein back in 2011http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/12/12/edward-tellers-moon-shot/ …
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Replying to @Casillic @wellerstein
Was there ANYTHING that the guy didn't want to nuke?!
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Well, y'know if you give a two-year old a toy hammer, suddenly *everything* needs a little hammering...
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he named one of his largest designs "Little Edward" tells you something about him, I thinkpic.twitter.com/214ZA6RYi8
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How big is "bigger"... and how big did he go? Or do I not want to know?
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his ambition was essentially limitless... but the highest-yield design he ever proposed was 10,000 megatons. I don't know how high-yield "Little Edward" was — it was a multi-crit gun-type bomb meant to set off an H-bomb.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bigger-boom/ …
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Great post! Thanks!
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