Mini-nukes revisited

In a previous post, I told you about the chemical and explosive power of Thorium-235. This is a made-up substance with a long half-life yet radioactively powerful enough to set off a small atomic explosion. The book trailer for The Ark Lords shows you their destructive power.

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While they are very powerful, they are really just big-time explosives rather than full-blown atomic weapons. Their yield is only three tenths of a kiloton of explosive power. In fact, when the Darwin contingent on Deucado blew up Rome's Library, it was not even completely destroyed. This was Rome's observation of the destruction:

“Oh no!” Rome cried out, pointing past the windshield. In the place where her library had stood, there was now a tremendous crater, several hundred feet across. Pieces of aerogel, bricks and other debris were scattered around the rim of the crater. Oddly, a small portion of the front wall remained. The rest of the building was simply gone. The trees circling beyond the edge of the crater had been knocked over, splayed outward in a radial pattern.

You can see from the portion highlighted in bold that there were still recognizable fragments of the original building. Not everything was vaporized.

Interestingly, the larger sections of a regular Ark are several hundred feet across. So if you dropped a mini-nuke right in the middle, chances are the outer portions would be somewhat recognizable.

Who would do such a thing? You will have to wait until The Milk Run is finished to find out.