Well, the californium bullet was apparently a real idea back in the '60s, according to my memory as confirmed by the Wikipedia entry.

[i] An article entitled "Facts and Fallacies of World War III" in the July 1961, edition of Popular Sciencemagazine read "A californium atomic bomb need be no bigger than a pistol bullet. You could build a hand-held six-shooter to fire bullets that would explode on contact with the force of 10 tons of TNT."[65]

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On Mar 14, 2016, at 3:10 PM, "Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

On 3/14/2016 10:10 AM, Mark Urbin wrote:
I stand by my apparently controversial stand that the quad barreled
electro-magnetic dinner plate of death launcher was a silly thing to put
in the Ironmongery section of a book that is supposed to be an updated
version of the CT Book 4 Mercenary.

Well, the original had hollow californium bullets that collapsed on impact to produce tiny nuclear explosions... so really, IMO, we're at the "six of one, half a dozen of the other" point. :p

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