Well, as sophisticated as it got in the 1940s
Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
A nuclear bomb requires precise explosions delivered by shaped charges to achieve fission. You could strap C4 to the sides of a nuke and set them off, and you probably wouldn’t create a nuclear explosion. It’s a very delicate kind of weapon with very sophisticated engineering.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s?ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
We don’t know how sophisticated Iranian devices might be.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, they’re working with China, so probably more sophisticated than ours at this point. Designs anyway, maybe not having any functional.
dickalan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, but because of nonproliferation, I don’t think we were making any new ones and haven’t been designing them for quite some time
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
not sure if anything more than hydrogen bombs are needed. Next would be like matter antimatter.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And even “precise” would be understating it. Not only is a specific shape of the detonation required, but timing is crucial too. Otherwise you’ll end up with a fizzle.
But yes, the main concern is nuclear contamination in the target area.