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    GreyHammer: WMDs are used solely as deterrants now a days the real killing comes from conventional weapons. besides, when terrorists can't even cobble together te... more »
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I almost skipped the comments on this one b/c I thought "eh". Glad I clicked (with my grizzled keyboard). more »
    Roklimber: Quoting Scotty, "and if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a wagon." Sure, in theory, nanotech nuclear devices powered by lasers are possible. A... more »
    Ghede: Scared? No. They just replaced the infamous planet-cracker with a safer variant. more »
    mordicai: NANOTECH: COULD IT MAKE JESUS SMALLER? STAY TUNED AT 11. um, duh, nanotech can make tech smaller. Kinda QED. more »
    Demosthenes7898: With almost every advancement in technology comes an extremely ingenious way of abusing the fuck out of it. more »
    cljohnston108: I once heard a rumor that they were working on a nuclear bomb the size of a grain of sand. I haven't been to the beach in quite some time. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Note to Janes: Maybe you should investigate how the concept of critical MASS and nukular weaponry go together before freaking out about something the ... more »
    AngryEddy: ... On a positive note, if these weapons are the future tools of terrorism, the enemies should be a whole lot easier to spot. After all, they'll have... more »
    The Curse of Millhaven: Jane's 42620 b.c.e. also reported that fire could be used to burn the fingers of an entire enemy tribe, making them unable to wield spears. more »
    I Think We're Property: Yeah, the conceptual micro-nukes they're talking about are fusion based. You've heard of the whole "triggering fusion by bombarding a fuel pellet with... more »
    TemporalSword: Let's see, we have nanotechnology, superlasers, small thermonuclear explosion involving a deuterium-tritium mixture... I think this is just a viral f... more »
    NerD: Blattella: So you could create a multi molecule size nucler explosive that would have the explosive capacity of a what? Grenade? Oklahoma-City sized explosive?... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: Nano? Like... well, say, could a covert agent sneak this into another country in his, well, say, bodily fluids? more »
  • #futureweapons

    Nanotech Could Make Nuclear Weapons Much, Much Tinier

    Are you ready for nano-weapons of mass destruction? Nanotechnology could be used to create "miniaturized nuclear weapons" that would have virtually no fallout, and super-efficient bioterrorism, warns Jane's Defense Quarterly. And they could be triggered with a super-laser! More »
  • #xmen

    Must Read: X-Men: New X-Men Omnibus