>>2332875>I mean sure its more powerful than what they have right now, but the amount they have can make up the differenceWe have several 10kg warheads equivalent to 400 megatons right now. These are early "small" warheads. Give it a few years and I guarantee we will have the capability to make a 100kg warhead. If you think 2MT (normal) warheads are a lot, then you can appreciate the size of the 50MT Tsar bomba. The reason that weapon was never stockpiled is it's too heavy to transport and weighed tens of thousands of pounds. We have tiny little warheads the size of your PC with the equivalent yield of ten times that.
A "large" warhead (that can still be put on an ICBM) of 100kg would have a yield not in the megatonne range, but in the Gigaton, and that would be around 4 GT, 4000 MT, 80x the Tsar Bomba.
You wanna see what that would look like?
Pic related. Left is a "large" 2 MT nuclear ICBM. the kind that would hit most cities in a nuclear war. The giant circle covering most of the eastern seaboard is a 4GT detonation. A single device no larger than the current 2MT payloads.
Now Imagine trying to fight a "nuclear" war against that when a single hypersonic missle can do that.
