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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually, one of their feasibility assumptions is that the device is too large to be used militarily.

https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1#%3A%7E%3Atext=Confronting+the+escalating+threat+of%2CEnhanced+Rock+Weathering+%28ERW%29.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I think they underestimate a military's desire to use all of the things that go boom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Ah. I suppose building an 81 gigaton nuclear weapon wouldn't be small.

Let's fire up the antimatter then!