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kleinbl00 · 3537 days ago · link · · parent · post: Video clip of Cannikin, the largest underground thermonuclear test
Not to see what would happen, but to check whether or not the X-ray tamping of the W71 completely fucked with the design's yield. Thus the full-scale test; the science had largely gotten to the point where smaller tests accomplished just as much. The W71 was designed to save you from this: That's an MX Missile fucking the shit out of Kwajeilein, by the way. The whole Nike thing was given up when it was conclusively proven it wouldn't work. You wanna see crazy?