Also, apparently Randal Munroe is older than he claims : -)

<https://books.google.com/books?id=OiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false>

If that isn’t an xkcd cartoon I’ll eat my hat... “World Ending Bunch of Big Booms: a Thing Explainer Guide to Mutually Assured Destruction and/or the Apocalypse” ;-)

> On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Rob Dean <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> [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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> That would be ‘bullet’ unless you were firing from significantly robust cover :-) Kind of like the Davy Crockett nuclear bazooka round…blast radius exceeds the useful range of the weapon.
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> Here’s the referenced PopSci page; <https://books.google.com/books?id=OiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA180#v=onepage&q&f=false> I find it hilarious that it’s right next to an ad for “Army-Navy Surplus Sale” for some reason :-)
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> Of course, if you’re carrying around a six-shooter loaded with Californium, you probably want to go with the quicker ‘BOOM’ rather than the ‘ick ack puke’ route of radiation poisoning….
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