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Seriously, we peaked with control logic for nukes in the 70s. China has been able to put their hands on PDP-11s for quite a while now, lol.


It’s not about control logic as supercomputers are used to simulate explosions so you don’t have to do it in the world releasing a lot of radioactivity.


Sure but using that to optimize for yield (ie. scariness) peaked in the 70s too. Like anything past and including tsar bomba ceases to make sense.


But you can not put a tzar bomb on a rocket, that can be fired from a silo or even from a submarine. And to threat America and Europe your rocket need to flight 10000 miles or more and reach Mach 5 or even faster. All possible only with high yield, compact warheads, which the Chinese do not have yet.


Sure, so that takes you into 80s technology. A Nintendo switch destroys a cray y-mp on perf.

The processing power at oak ridge et al AFAIK is spent trying to recover old warheads without testing them, which is a massively harder problem.

Edit: and the Chinese have had their DD-ZF publicly for years now. I feel like they have to have warheads for it. Given where we've known about what warheads they have when, it'd make sense for that to be available currently.




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