I miss the concept of the Neutron Bomb(Wipe out life without massive and lasting radiation). If we stuck with this type of capability to “bomb” a place like an exterminator and return to living there not soon after it would be awesome.
The neutron bomb has been called the perfect
capitalist weapon. It gets rid of the people
and preserves the real estate. Hey, it works for me.
Here’s what a nuclear engineer has to say aobut it:
Now, a neutron bomb, is just an ordinary nuclear weapon that is designed to maximize the output of neutrons. When detonated high over a city, the radiation kills everybody in the city and leaves the buildings alone. After a few weeks or months, all the short lived, irradiated isotopes have pretty much decayed away and the altitude of the weapon sufficiently dispersed the radioactive materials from the bomb itself and you can take over the city within about six months with no trouble. This is the cleanest application of nuclear bombs, but all the radioactive material went into the atmosphere, it didn’t just disappear.
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