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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

wow, and the bomb only needs a yield of 1620 times the largest nuclear bomb ever deployed.

[–] marcos 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Nuclear explosions are inherently unsafe"

Well, he warns about it.

[–] pennomi 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nuclear explosions are inherently unsafe…

…but fuck them fish!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"Barren seafloor"

"That's what we call your mom Kevin!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And states the main problem, with a deep ocean detonation, would be fallout.

I'm not sure that's right. The shockwave of a bomb that insane could easily have seismic and tsunami effects. Probably be the biggest mass of dead fish floating at the surface, too.

Should probably talk to some geologists first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Give some ear plugs to the whales

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

[citation needed]

[–] Soup 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would 1,620 of those bombs work instead?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

perhaps, though you'd have to dig a much bigger hole. however, the paper points out that the sheer military uselessness of such an enormous bomb would be crucial to making it legal or politically feasible. the international community would be understandably sus of anyone wanting to make 1620 tsar bombas.

[–] sober_monk 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link, interesting read! I know that a good paper is succint, but honestly, I thought that making the case for a gigaton-yield nuclear explosion to combat climate change would take more than four pages...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Study conclusion: YOLO

[–] brucethemoose 5 points 1 week ago

It's quite light on details.