[Paul_Denton]

True. I should have made clear the minimum yield (575 kilotons) lol. Still you have about 200,000 troops trying to control an entire planet you do need force multipliers. This type of bomb would only be used at maximum yeld against very deep bunkers, shipyards and cities (although city busting is mainly strategic and psycological). Fusion weapons would be used at the high kiloton and low megaton level against massed enemy armor and troop formations for the same reason we would use such weapons if russian tanks came charging through the fulda gap. To offset superior enemy manpower and numbers.

[A knight without armor]

You two are made for each other.

Meantime:

Nesselrode Pie

3 egg whites
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup coarsely chopped blanched almonds, toasted
1/3 cup maraschino cherries, cut in fourths
2 tablespoons maraschino-cherry syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, whipped

1 Vanilla-wafer Crust

Beat the egg whites till foamy, add the granulated sugar gradually
and beat till stiff. Fold in the almonds cherries, cherry syrup,
and vanilla. Fold confectioners' sugar into whipped cream; fold
into the first mixture. Pour into vanilla-wafer crust and freeze
firm. Garnish top with cherry poinsettias and gumdrop holly leaves.

Vanilla-wafer Crust: Combine 1 1/4 cups fine vanilla-wafer crumbs
and 1/3 cup melted butter or margarine. Press into buttered 9-inch
pie plate; chill till firm, about 45 minutes.

Cherry poinsettias: The stem mark of maraschino cherry will be the
center of flower. Holding cherry at stem end, use sharp scissors
to snip it in sixths >from opposite end not quite through. Spread
"petals" out around stem mark.

Gumdrop holly leaves: With rolling pin, roll green gumdrops to 1/8
inch on a little sugar between sheets of waxed paper. Snip out
holly-leaf shapes.