On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Eamon Watters <>wrote:
> In my TNE-verse Det Nukes were crafted in such a way that any significant
> atmosphere around the nuke would result in the nuke warhead
> fragmenting/duding when the compression charge/laser/whatever tried to
> achieve a critical mass. Other safeties include basic densitometers to
> prevent detonation close to significant bodies (Earth, Vesta, Pamela
> Anderson...)
>
> Of course, military-standard det-nukes didn't have the densitometers - but
> even then, if they wanted to nuke a world they'd use ordinance fit for the
> job.
I always assumed major population centers where protected by
Nuclear Dampeners a'la CT with enough range to protect said center from
most primary and secondary effects of nuclear blasts.
--
Evyn