[OT]Nukes... tunnels.... boom....Question

G'day,

My Daleks have used the odd DSII NUKE, but I wouldn't imagine they turn up in
too many other games. So, ignoring everythnig else, are the battlefield nukes
the paper mentions the NUKE of DSII or are they smaller munitions that could
be a 'sensible' (in game terms) loadout for artillery without

wiping out half the board?

Beth

With the Tuffleyverse "fusion in a jeep" (TM) powerplants, I would think that
the DS2 nukes are extreemly small fusion bombs.

Depending on the fusion process, there may be little radiation beyond the
background. Instead of fusing pounds or ounces of material, it may only be a
few atoms (hydrogen to helium?). Most of the damage may be from 'waste heat'
(i.e. a larger, shell version of the DFFG reaction).

Quoting "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>:

> With the Tuffleyverse "fusion in a jeep" (TM) powerplants, I would

Surely you'd still end up with a lot of irradiated casing parts that then get
scattered about?

Fusion process still produces a lot of spare neutrons - enough that the
larger bombs use a fission core to start fusion to produce enough neutrons to
start
fission happening in an otherwise non-fissibleable uranium jacket,
referred to
as fission-fusion-fission bombs.

If you don't have a fusion tamper, those fusion-resultant neutrons would
cause the casing to become moderately radioactive. Just before it gets
scattered

> Fusion process still produces a lot of spare neutrons - enough that

This will depend a lot on the irradiated material. Some atomic nuclei don't
react with neutrons of the speeds prodiced in fusion, others simply absorb
them. Judicious choice of casing material might result in an H-Bomb
that's
"environmentally friendly" - if you want to call it that. Any irradiated
nearby Earth or other object might still be a problem, though.

Greetings