If we want, Can we just keep making the Nuclear device more powerful? Is their a potential limit?
Like for example can we create a bomb 10 giga tons powerful i.e 200 times the power of tsar bomba or 660000 times more powerful than hiroshima bomb or about 0.01% of the estimated power of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
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After a certain point you start to get diminishing returns. Stuff like the [Tsar Bomb](https://youtu.be/YtCTzbh4mNQ) looks really scary and is a good propaganda piece, but wasn’t really practical due to the high cost. A lot of the dangerous radiation (which is a good thing when it comes to nukes) was just thrown into space and wasted, and while the blast wave was gigantic, the same amount of destruction could have been done cheaper with several smaller bombs.
So yes, we could theoretically keep getting bigger, but there’s there’s an upper limit on usefulness so there isn’t a reason to do so.
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