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Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?

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What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?

Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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    2 years ago

    Nuclear bazooka

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

    But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits

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      Holy shit, the Fatman from Fallout is real ‽

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        If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can see it in the nuclear museum (can’t recall what it’s specifically called)

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      In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being “too provocative.” Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.

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      The people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.

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