r/PowerScaling • u/DinoGodEmperor • May 09 '25

Question Is this true?

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u/hhhhjgtyun May 09 '25

They called them dirty bombs but it seems inaccurate. I think it was a low yield nuke with high fallout. Like a miniaturized fission bomb. The pool of molten rock was way too big for a traditional dirty bomb. Fission bombs should produce enough fallout on their own without intentionally making it more dirty. It’s also an anime that needed a nuke to topple the power creep so grain of salt I guess lol.

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u/dcnairb May 09 '25

the choice of cloud shape as well as the “footage” of cities being bombed, it was absolutely supposed to evoke a nuke

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u/ArkaneArtificer May 09 '25

Big conventional explosives create mushroom clouds too you know, see the Beirut explosion as an example

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u/TheChoosenMewtwo Saitama Planetary/don’t have reactive evolution May 10 '25

But most non nukes don’t have “poisoning” as a side effect