# Hydrogen Bomb

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [June 4, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390 "2014-06-04T01:38:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Catfoodbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@Catfoodbob](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Catfoodbob)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/1 "2014-06-04T01:38:21Z")

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Basically a nuclear bomb but 10 times the blast radius for those of you that like destroying things violently with atomic wrath

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/2 "2014-06-04T01:40:58Z")

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What about a water electrolyzer that turns water into H and O2, and the ability to make hydrogen gas bombs.

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**Author:** ![kilozombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@kilozombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kilozombie)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/3 "2014-06-04T01:41:12Z")

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Hydrogen bombs are, generally, nuclear bombs. They both use nuclear fusion/fission (depending on the type of bomb). Hydrogen bombs just split hydrogen atoms, some other ones use a type of plutonium IIRC.

Also, since when were nuclear bombs in the game? Yeah, there are silo ones… but they already take ~10x10 radius of map tiles in their radioactive blaze, or 5x5. Either way, there’s no reason for this to exist.

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**Author:** ![vache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vache](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vache)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/4 "2014-06-04T01:50:33Z")

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Hydrogen bombs don’t split hydrogen atoms, they fuse them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/5 "2014-06-04T02:02:34Z")

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But hydrogen gas is flammable, so I don’t know why we can’t have hydrogen bombs as a flash fire bomb. It’d burn long enough to catch some things on fire but not as massively as a Molotov.

Precision explosives.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/6 "2014-06-04T03:25:10Z")

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There’s a mininuke as well.  
But hydrogen bombs are way too big to be man-portable, fission bombs are stretching it.  
Though I would be fine with buffing the mininuke, giving it overmap-scale damage output and a several minute timer.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/hydrogen-bomb/6390/7 "2014-06-05T03:56:19Z")

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Definitely, 5 plutonium batteries worth of fission would take out a medium sized town.