pocket nukes

A thought:

Can smaller warhead be achieved by using a gravitic field (one shot) to
compress rather than explosives and thus achieving fusion/fission in a
smaller package? (assumption: grav tech is smaller than explosives....)

If this is the case, the atomic bazooka of ST becomes reasonable.

To do this justice in SG2, you'd need to define a primary, secondary and
tertiary blast radius. Anything inside of primary is vaporized. Secondary, a
good roll against armour. Tertiary, some lesser roll. We ignore radiation as a
factor within the context of the scenario and let the doctors worry about it
later.

TomB:
> Can smaller warhead be achieved by using a gravitic field (one shot) to

a) I don't see why grav would be smaller than explosives, we've certainly
studied chemistry longer than gravitics; b) You need a certain minimum mass to
be useful, although I don't recall how much. IIRC it's on the order of a
kilogram or two. Also IIRC, the US had nuke 155mm shells (or maybe 203mm?)
back in the 70's.