Isn’t it common sense to say it’s theoretically best to hit it with exactly enough force and no extra?
Given that a modern 2-stage hydrogen (fusion) warhead will completely destroy any manmade structure ever built with a direct hit, if you’re sure you can hit it accurately, you do not need a stronger bomb. A stronger bomb will necessarily produce more collateral damage, will it not?
If you’re talking about using multiple small bombs to hit a single military target, you might have something, but the development of high accuracy weapons makes that moot. If you’re hitting it on one try, you don’t need more. Yes, multiple smaller bombs, properly distributed, would do more area damage to a city, but that would only be attempted if your intent was to do so – a different scenario from what you seem to be discussing.
While I get your overall point, can you cite anyone actually saying each of those developments was the “final” weapon? I’ve heard such claims before, and I’d be interested to see an actual quote or something.
That’s a limitation of the present technology. Combine something that spreads like the flu, with a longish incubation time so it can spread far ( especially if it’s undetected so there’s no quarantine ), and a near 100% lethality like AIDS and you’d have quite a nasty weapon. Fortunately, we can’t manage that yet.
Even the atom bomb is useless against the terrorists,so perhaps instead of making bigger more powerful bombs that destroy people and infrastructure
perhaps we could come up with some kind of chemical Bomb that would make people more understanding of others and less inclined to use force to try to get their way… a fantasy of course but worth working on.
Meh. As long as any of the enemy galaxy empires can blow up the entire LOCAL GROUP better and faster than we can, the future and destiny of the ONE TRUE GALAXY Empire will be in serious jeopardy.
It’s better to go with Planet killing. Updating the data on the orbital trajectories that would be affected by the loss of a star system would be a pain in the ass, and the cost in computing power would be astronomical, no pun intended.
With a planet, you’d keep the mass more or less contained in the same system so its effects on the macrosystem would be negligible.
Every true afficionado of Galactic strategy knows it’s a question of logistics, not tactics. It’s a matter of getting the power source that is capable of initiating the chain reaction from one galaxy to another.
What is a GaY bomb? Most gays I know are already a peaceful lot. The fact that we need or feel we need bombs just shows how uncivil the human race still is.
