Which moronic US President decided to scrap the Neutron Bomb?
>>Which moronic US President decided to scrap the Neutron Bomb?
Please continue. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The “neutron bomb” was only envisioned as a battlefield weapon for taking out tanks and causing massive local war field casualties.
There are so many resources out there for you to look at before you post.
A “neutron bomb” was never proposed as a high yield theater of war or strategic weapon, let alone a long range weapon.
We have plenty of normal nukes in the 2.5MT range that will do the job you are thinking about. Most strategic weapons fall into the 250Kt to 500Kt range because they are as massive as anything you could ever need for a “strategic” attack. Anything bigger is just genocide and pointless from a military perspective. That is exactly why the weapons programs after 1954 or so concentrated on long range weapons delivery of small and medium yield weapons and/or scientific studies. Both the USA and the USSR knew that nothing would ever be solved with multi megaton weapons. Everything until the LTBT was research and showmanship. Then we went to the CTBT in hopes that nuclear countries would take their tests underground and only work on scientific and relatively low yield projects - and we actually shared data of these tests. The neutron bomb was never practical, and all research went into the “Super” thermonuclear design for ICBM MIRVD delivery of small 60kg warheads. We’ve been at that stage since at least 1972, and not much has changed until now for the most part.
I think it was Carter.