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The leader of woker's for equalism marches towards the door. He is in the northern tundra in the middle of a mountain. Inside is the most secret weapon ever created by Woker's for equalism. It is simple enough. Since a thermonuclear explosion uses tritium which is basically hydrogen with 2 extra neutrons, the scientists didn't stop there they added more and more neutrons. The result was Pandorium, an isotope with one proton and 4 neutrons. Although it is very unstable it is close to 9 times as powerful as tritium. 250 grams of the stuff is loaded into a bomb. This is a huge amount a 25 megaton bomb only uses about 100 grams of tritium. There is the question of detonating it. But that is solved by 12 small fission weapons surrounding the bomb. Then the straws fuel the weapon into the pandorium which explodes in a devastating explosion. It cost an estimated 1 trillion to research. The price for a bomb is still 1.2 billion and they take 3 months for a team of 20 scientists to make. But they already have 5. They are the size of a thermonuclear 2 megaton bomb. 4 are taken out to a more secure location while one is loaded onto a plane set on auto pilot to them of the ocean for a test.

the bomb, 40,000 feet above the ocean and 2000 kilometers from the enarest land is detonated. First the conventonal esplosives are detonated and their explosion neatly sets off the 12 fission weapons. Then the engrgy is trnasfered through the straws into the Pandorium. Then the neutrons from the fission hit the Pandoium and all the neutrons break away creating more neutrans. All this takes 4 shakes more than the usaul 3 for a thermonuclear device. then the results happen. The blast's power is an unbilivible 150 megatons. The explosion hits the water and instantly turns thousands of liters into steamand the water boils for a wide area. The explosion also goes up. However do the heigh of this explosion iit has very littile radioactive fall out. The blas does spread however, and the "everyone dead within 5 years range" reachs for 170 kilometers from the weapon. If this had been on land the crator would be close to 2000 feet deep and 5 miles across. The fallout would have been enough to turn one coutnry into a radioactive wasteland.

Actually, it's just a Hydrogen isotope. You have to add protons for it to be a different element.

sorry. Meased up isotope and element sorry.

A hydrogen isotope so unstable that it could never actually be used for nuclear fusion.

hello, the unstableness is what makes it work!! If tritium was stable it wouldn't work

this bomb type is now called a hyper-nuclear type

[lets just tag to see who buys it]

How does such a young nation have 1 trillion lying about?
Pandorium would be so rare that it would decay as soon as it existed. There is no way to hold it together.
Look at Francium, which is so rare as to be theoretical, and polonium, the rarest element on Earth. These may not be (dangerously) radioactive but thats not the point (also I think polonium is)

yeah, tritium is unstable, but stable enough that it can be loaded onto a bomb at a...um...bomb factory, stuck on a plane (or missile), and still be mostly intact to detonate on the target. hydrogen-17 would decay within milliseconds.

besides, who says that adding more neutrons will make a greater heat of reaction?

not a bad idea, though.

however, dear theoretical physics/chem major...some theories predict an "island of stability" at an atomic number of 114 (there is no ununquatrium, as far as i know, so this theory has yet to be tested), so if you had hydrogen-114, it just might work (not in reality, because you'd never be able to get any substantial amount of H114 with current methods of atomic synthesis).

furthermore...a 50 megaton device detonated by the late soviet union in the 1950's (or early 60's?) created a crater about that size, lit up the skies in paris, was heard around the world, and the shock wave circled the earth 3 times. a rather large island disappeared off of maps. a bomb 150 times that size would probably singlehandedly cause a nuclear winter.

a bit overpowered isn't it?

yeah, tritium is unstable, but stable enough that it can be loaded onto a bomb at a...um...bomb factory, stuck on a plane (or missile), and still be mostly intact to detonate on the target. hydrogen-17 would decay within milliseconds.

And tritium is also what once upon a time was used to make "glow in the dark" watch faces, stickers, etc. (Maybe they still do) I kid you not :)

yeah, tritium is unstable, but stable enough that it can be loaded onto a bomb at a...um...bomb factory, stuck on a plane (or missile), and still be mostly intact to detonate on the target. hydrogen-17 would decay within milliseconds.

And tritium is also what once upon a time was used to make "glow in the dark" watch faces, stickers, etc. (Maybe they still do) I kid you not :)

it still is what they use for that.

and by the way, this type of a bomb has been made before, its nothing new. It also was discovered that a bomb made of this material, is only a small fraction of the power of a regular nuke.

first of all Tirium is altered to a lithium alloy or osmething like that for it to last a lot longer. We have done the same thing here. It may only last for about 5 years n the shelf but it works and can create massive amounts of damge. Oh ya and that soviet bomb I bieilive was detonated underground so that was one BIG explosion.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

This is the high-yield 50 Mgt bomb blast, and sits on the edge of possible bomb sizes.

Sorry, WoE, but your bomb simply doesnt stand up to physics, or even common sense. To produce a yield you are talking about would require literally hundreds of tons of fusionable material, even if this isotope could in some way exist, and the bomb itself would be unfeasibly large.

ok thaknk you would 100 megatons be resonable

well, yes, that bomb, the Tsarbomba was a 100 megaton design