371 | Evan Thomas: The Atomic Bomb's Legacy in a Disordered World
The Realignment
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The Role of Scale in the History of Nuclear Weapons
Today's typical nuclear warhead on an ICBM, like on a submarine is 100 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Today would probably be called the tactical weapon. Now we're making tactical weapons again and so is everybody else. This is the idea of you use it in a battlefield setting but even 12 kiloton weapon is going to kill a lot of people with radiation. The scale is terrible. And my own view on this my own emotional view is that these distinctions are not very helpful because even the tactical weapons are so terrible. Once you start using once you start go down this road.
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