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What Is This?

03/03/2016 4:35 PM

Ram might know

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Re: what is this?

03/03/2016 6:02 PM

It is a bomb, for sure.

It's not Fat Man or Little Boy, so without cheating I can't say what it might be.

Maybe an successor, I guess.

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03/03/2016 6:03 PM

The newest update of FatMan.

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Re: what is this?

03/03/2016 7:21 PM

not exactly

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03/03/2016 7:26 PM

That's okay; I don't pretend to get any of these right except on a lucky WAG.

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Re: what is this?

03/03/2016 7:23 PM

thermobaric weapon

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03/03/2016 7:33 PM

not a daisy cutter no

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Re: what is this?

03/03/2016 7:34 PM

Asteroid killer....

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03/03/2016 8:04 PM

Hydrogen fusion

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03/04/2016 8:29 AM

Strange, I've lost a glove, doctor, but I've stopped worrying about the bomb, but where is Slim Pickens?

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03/04/2016 11:28 AM

It's a replica (thank goodness) of the Tsar Bomb, the biggest nuclear device ever exploded. This disturbing device was "throttled back" for testing so it would produce a hopefully small enough yield that the plane that drop this parachute retarded bomb could safely leave the area. The yield was still 50 Megatons, the initial design was supposed to exceed 100 Megatons.

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03/04/2016 12:09 PM

That's it.

My word... what were we thinking?

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03/04/2016 12:57 PM

Your next president, the Donald, will have it recommissioned and drop it on any country that he thinks is mean to him.

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03/04/2016 4:14 PM

He's going to need a lot of bombs.

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03/05/2016 3:19 AM

Except it's Russian. So more likely that Putin will have it recommissioned and drop it on the Donald.

Though in Scotland, we have a better way of dealing with the Donald.

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03/04/2016 4:49 PM

The only good thing this device produced was the incentive for the nuclear test ban treaty that stopped atmospheric testing of nuclear devices. The very, very disturbing thing this device demonstrated was that an upper limit for the magnitude of a nuclear device may not exist.

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