Y’all think the US been developing a weapon more powerful than a Nuke the last few decades?

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:patrice: I mean surely right? I’m sure Nukes are more powerful now, but we gotta have something different by now right? Lasers from space? Gundams?
 

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Probably so I wouldn't be surprised if some crazy advanced weaponry gets developed after this cold war.
 

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Nah, what’s stronger than splitting the atom like the sun?

I used to be really into military technology. The US, and probably other countries, have conventional bombs that do the same damage as nuclear ones, without the radiation
 

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:patrice: I mean surely right? I’m sure Nukes are more powerful now, but we gotta have something different by now right? Lasers from space? Gundams?
Heres the problem with this thinking:

Everyone basically learned that a nuclear weapon could be built AT THE SAME TIME.

The problem was that once people learned this, the research went underground and the competing project started.

So a clue would be...what technology did everyone hear about...that magically disappeared from research journals... That might mean thats where the actual competition is.

Manhattan Project - Wikipedia


Censorship

Security poster, warning office workers to close drawers and put documents in safes when not being used
Voluntary censorship of atomic information began before the Manhattan Project. After the start of the European war in 1939 American scientists began avoiding publishing military-related research, and in 1940 scientific journals began asking the National Academy of Sciences to clear articles. William L. Laurence of The New York Times, who wrote an article on atomic fission in The Saturday Evening Post of 7 September 1940, later learned that government officials asked librarians nationwide in 1943 to withdraw the issue.[256] The Soviets noticed the silence, however. In April 1942 nuclear physicist Georgy Flyorov wrote to Josef Stalin on the absence of articles on nuclear fission in American journals; this resulted in the Soviet Union establishing its own atomic bomb project.[257]

The Manhattan Project operated under tight security lest its discovery induce Axis powers, especially Germany, to accelerate their own nuclear projects or undertake covert operations against the project.[258] The government's Office of Censorship, by contrast, relied on the press to comply with a voluntary code of conduct it published, and the project at first avoided notifying the office. By early 1943 newspapers began publishing reports of large construction in Tennessee and Washington based on public records, and the office began discussing with the project how to maintain secrecy. In June the Office of Censorship asked newspapers and broadcasters to avoid discussing "atom smashing, atomic energy, atomic fission, atomic splitting, or any of their equivalents. The use for military purposes of radium or radioactive materials, heavy water, high voltage discharge equipment, cyclotrons." The office also asked to avoid discussion of "polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium"; only uranium was sensitive, but was listed with other elements to hide its importance.[259][260]
 
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