[xwdv]

Not really any more terrifying than driving around in vehicles powered by thousands of tiny explosions per minute.

[idlewords]

If someone siphons your gas tank, they're not going to be able to nuke Paris. But a nuclear pulse rocket needs thousands of bomblets the size of coke cans. That's the scary part.

[marcinzm]

> size of coke cans.

Not really, each one would be 6 inches in diameter and weight over 300lbs.

[idlewords]

Dyson's book hints that they ended up far smaller, but the details of that are classified to the gills.

[p1mrx]

Sounds impossible. A 6 inch diameter uranium sphere is only 80 lbs, and there are no materials significantly denser than that.

[postalrat]

They sell coke cans in the shape of a sphere?

[p1mrx]

https://www.google.com/search?q=spherical+coke+bottle&tbm=is...