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Considering Israel and the US are bombing Iran's nuclear facilities because they have "weapons of mass destruction", if Iran really did have such weapons, wouldn't bombing the facilities they're held in cause them to explode, or cause an evident ripple at least? I may be imagining this in a way cartoonier way than military weapons actually work, but I'm preparing myself for some incredibly annoying debates.

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[–] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Different topic but same idea. Worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/BuIPYfO5-qE&t=15m55s

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Most likely not, I'd be more worried about local ground contamination from enriched uranium now being exposed.

Nuclear bombs have many safety features built in just for these reasons, enemy bombs you, you don't want your own nukes going off on your land.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Most likely not, I'd be more worried about local ground contamination from enriched uranium now being exposed.

Nuclear bombs have many safety features built in just for these reasons, enemy bombs you, you don't want your own nukes going off on your land.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Yes. The people in this thread are wrong. Bombing a nuke can set it off, just not fully.

A nuke may require many precise detonations to function as intended. When everything goes right it will release it's full power.

When an external explosion hits the nuke, only some material should activate, causing a relatively tiny explosion. Shouldn't be any real fallout.

This assumes the designers specifically made the nuke to not go off from one explosion. There's no rule that says you need to make nukes safe. People shouldn't dismiss a partial detonation of a nuke like it's nothing.

Edit: look up "one-point safety." Safer nukes are designed so very little happens when there's eg an explosion. If nukes didn't go off when bombed this wouldn't be a thing.

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