How destructive are current U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals relative to their maximum levels? [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese on Sep 26, 2009 - 8 answers

You know how, like, the universal symbol for a bomb is all, like, a bowling ball with a fuse? And how, like, in cartoons and junk it's always drawn that way? Where there ever bombs like that for realsies? I'm in California using Windows XP Professional.
posted by notmydesk on Aug 6, 2008 - 17 answers

According to this chart, there have been 2,422 nuclear explosions since 1945, including above ground, under ground, and in the sea. I'm somewhat amazed that this isn't having more of permanent negative effect. Does spreading out all the nuclear activity allow our ecosystem to absorb the radiation in reasonable intervals? Chernobyl has been a wasteland since the reactor meltdown. Was it simply that much more radioactive than actually testing bombs?
posted by SpacemanStix on Apr 24, 2008 - 47 answers

Have humans' evil brains yet conceived of ways to weaponize the ideas and implications relating to Quantum Mechanics? [more inside]
posted by basicchannel on Nov 16, 2006 - 18 answers