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Why do the nations in my world use tactical nuclear weapons but not strategic ones while still having both?
Exactly what it says on the tin: why do the nuclear bomb-having nations in my world use tactical nuclear weapons but not strategic ones while still having both?
They're not launching ICBMs at one ...
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How far would radiation from an exclusion zone spread?
I'm working on a story where in 1983 the world went to full on global war and all nuclear power plants blew up either under nuclear fire or by losing power.
I know about the general 30km exclusion ...
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What would the global effects of a prolonged nuclear war at sea be?
There are a great many studies targeted at the effects on the environment of nuclear war on land, but I can't seem to find any relating specifically to nuclear war at sea.
The current basic setup in ...
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Stopping a nuclear missile? [closed]
Would you be able to stop a nuclear missile by hitting it with a liquid nitrogen missile, As a means to prevent the nuclear radiation from spreading or falling to the ground from impact?
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Losing Knowledge
Is it plausible to create a world in which the people who live inside it developed technologies like the ones we had in WW2, but after their progress came to a halt they forgot their knowledge. ...
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Nuclear holocaust survival? [closed]
Okay, so I'm writing a story about a character in one of the rebuilt cities of the world about 2000 years after a mass nuclear war that took place around maybe 100 years from now, a war that destroyed ...
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