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First 3D Simulations of Complete Nuclear Detonations
jhiv writes: "The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reports that 'Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories have completed the first full-system three-dimensional simulations of a nuclear weapon's explosion'. The simulations are two of the largest computer simulations ever
attempted, each taking weeks to complete on the ASCI White supercomputer. The Los Alamos team used the ASCI Blue Mountain supercomputer to visualize the results. Additional coverage can be found in this story in the Albuquerque Journal."
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Our government most likely has been doing sims privately for years, ever since the cold war. Now i guess its no longer classified, kinda like the shadow government is no longer a secret.
As for ending nuclear weapons, we already have better weapons than nuclear, far more dangerous. We have mind control / altering weapons, we have weapons which can destroy all the buildings in an area without harming many people, we have we, weapons which can destroy all the electronics in a city maybe even a small country,we have germ warfare which could kill out millions of our enemies without any of them even noticing we are attacking them, we have the internet which we could use to cause their own people to turn againsnt their governments (if their government lets them on the net)
Nuclear weapons can do alot of damage but most of the damage is done to the enviornment and to the innocent people, not so much damage is done to the actual military enemy we'd be fighting if they have bunkers and caves and tunnels and bomb shelters. What good is nuke to someone who would survive it? Now germ warfare, and taking down all their electronics with one attack, and bombs which are made to destroy all their underground bases.
My point is, Nuke alone isnt useful, the only people interested in nuke are terrorists who want to kill innocent people.
If india were to use nuke on pakistan, lots of innocent people in pakistan would die, the military would launch nuke and many people in india would die, both countries would get absolutely no where.
Real wars are about missions, targets, and just throwing bombs around is not something thats usually done.
We threw a bomb at japan but it was because back then no one knew what nuke was.
Everyone knows about nuke now.
I worry more about the weapons which we dont know much about, or anything about at all, considering all the technology we have today, the weapons could be way more deadly and a country could be destroyed overnight by something like a virus which spreads through the air.
I worry about airborn unstoppable virii which kills people in a matter of hours.
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That's about it. For some reason I'm banned from moderating. (I have the right box checked on my homepage, no metamod, no nothing.) I didn't moderate in the great Troll round-up or anything. The only thing that I can think of that may have caused it is a joke I made about Katz a while back. It is nearly the first post on the topic where they introduced the friend/foe system a while back.
Hey, everyone should email Los Alamos and see if they'll GPL the code. Wouldnt' that be great!?