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      At that point you might as well go with the Japanese lunge mine design. If a nuke is gonna go off in my general vicinity I’d want to be as close as possible.

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        It doesn’t have to be a bomb. It could be like a demon core. The tank drivers get a blast of gamma but it’s a very small lethal radius.

        The bow is actually a better delivery mechanism than a RPG. It’s slow enough that there is time for the caveman to duck under cover.

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          Except it’s going to go straight down with the weight. Makes more sense to launch via slingshot.

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            It already violates the size requirements of any atomic weapon we know of (minimum mass for criticality also defines minimum size) so it could be hollow and weigh very little.

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    Remind me of the prototype weapon “the davy crocket” it was a concept weapon which would be used by field units preferably mounted to a willys jeep. Which would launch a football sized nuclear warhead.

    It never saw deployment because of multi reasons which include

    – it didnt shoot far enough to get the launchers out of explosion range

    – there was alot scrutiny in the 50s over nuclear bombs.

    – it was heavy as fuck

    Lots of people says the fallout series of games took heavy inspiration fron the davy crocket to make the fatman

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      I’ve read about it before. There’s even photos.

      If you want to apply the phrase “derp” to atomic weaponry, there you go.

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        Ha thats pretty funny. silly 50’s military thinking they can strap the power of a small sun to tripod thanks for the photo :D

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      You would probably really enjoy Heavy Metal Magazine. Especially the stuff by Moebius. It’s a French sci-fi comic magazine the 80’s animated movie was based on.

      I don’t think they make it anymore but there’s plenty of back issues to read. A few have been scanned in and put on the Internet Archive and I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find more by sailing the high seas.

      https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A"Heavy+Metal+Magazine"

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        This is all going so well with my current play through of Caves of Qud, and my planning for a Gamma World campaign. Thank you so much, I plan on descending into these waters and not emerging for a while.

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          What’s a good trick to getting into Qud? I have it but can’t seem to stick with it.

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    Reminds me of a pulp book I read where they go to Mars and just need to wear parkas to survive the surface

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      I remember reading as a kid in the 80s. That you could survive on Mars with a heavy coat and a respirator. Like not in some old pulp book, in a contemporary book for kids.

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    A civilized weapon for a more civilized age.

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    No wonder my ancestors got overpowered so easily … why didn’t they think of this before!

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      On the other hand, shooting atomic weapons at that close a range while defending their own land might have been just as bad.