Yeah after 1000 years you'd have a very toxic paperweight and not much else. One thing that is often overlooked/misunderstood about nuclear bombs (Hollywood deserves a lot of blame for this) is that nukes are detonated by a controlled explosion directed at the nuclear matter, any defect within this triggering mechanism and all you get is a small (relatively anyway) explosion and a scattering of the nuclear matter, a far cry from the blast of a controlled nuclear detonation.
Might want to retcon the latest GalNet article (as of the time of this post)
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Article says it's a uranium core.
By 2045 they may be using very different explosives, ones that are far more stable.
Also, there's a small possibility that the bomb uses helium-3, which isn't radioactive at all.
Even if this is all wrong. News media seldom get their facts correct. It makes a far better story that the bomb was active and was diffused. This is the Feds we are taking about.
By 2045 they may be using very different explosives, ones that are far more stable.
Also, there's a small possibility that the bomb uses helium-3, which isn't radioactive at all.
Even if this is all wrong. News media seldom get their facts correct. It makes a far better story that the bomb was active and was diffused. This is the Feds we are taking about.
true ……..hair burns quite easily