Probably the ultimate example of the daft spate of willy waving that had been going on between the US and the Soviet Union for the decade or so earlier, each trying to out do the other with the size of their thermonuclear capability. Pretty pointless, really, when a 50MT bomb was not exactly a practical weapon to deploy, had the world descended into nuclear armageddon. Probably 90% of the reason for producing this bomb was propaganda, I suspect.
I don’t understand why they describe it as a ‘clean bomb’. WTF is ‘clean’ about it?
Its not a cobalt bomb.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb
https://slate.com/human-interest/200...tml#page_start
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...omsday-Machine