[American in Israel]

Simple answer, add one pound of cobalt to each American warhead and a proximity sensor trigger.

The radioactive clouds of cobalt would overwhelm Russia's ability to respond for a few hundred thousand years.

Hard to stop fallout. Russia wants to up the stakes, we could respond with a doomsday weapon. Would bring the posturing and maneuvering to a complete halt for a generation.

While we are at it, demand Russia sink its ballistic subs, or we sink Russia, permanently. Since we are called the worlds dictator by all the world's dictators, bout time we dictated.

[K. Smirnov]

While we are at it, demand Russia sink its ballistic subs, or we sink Russia, permanently. Since we are called the worlds dictator by all the world's dictators, bout time we dictated.

Well, that is what the new warheads are for. To counterbalance the ideas like the one you posted.

It is called MAD - mutual assured destruction.

These weapons are built to never being used. I hope they will pass their time sitting in silos and underground hangars and will be scrapped when the time comes. They are just a warranty that there will be not so much dictating imposed on us, Russians. Well, unless our own gevernment becomes so corrupt it decides to sell their own country.

[GOP_1900AD]

You are off to a good start. If we were to expand on your thesis, and take an unabashed Clausewitzian path, amazing things might come of it. That's a tall order, however. We Americans are way outside our comfort zones with this sort of thinking.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The radioactive clouds of cobalt would overwhelm Russia's ability to respond for a few hundred thousand years.

IIRC, the radioactive cobalt has a half life of about 5 years. Still, that'd be long enough to make you want to move to a different neighborhood.

[ffusco]

You mean Cobalt-Thorium G?
Thank you Dr. Stangelove!

[garbageseeker]

If you want to do some real damage explode one ton on antimatter. The result would be a 40,000 megaton explosion.

[garbageseeker]

Simple answer, add one pound of cobalt to each American warhead and a proximity sensor trigger.

The United Kingdom reputedly conducted a nuclear experiment involving cobalt as a radioactive tracer in 1957, at the Tadje site, Maralinga range, Australia, but it was announced to be a failure.