Re:Nukes

You have to remember that nukes are not the ultimate weapons that some
people seam to think they are (although they are nasty). The nukes used
on
japan were crude, small devices compaired to what is posible today (I
think
the largest nuke detonated is 50 mt?). Also, nukes are going the other
way
as well, making them smaller, with less fallout, but still powerful
enough
to take out a target, not everything with 30 miles.The ones used on
japan
had mixed results, with the first one taking out the city targeted, but
the
second didn`t dammage the city too badly, because it was dropped onto a
industrial complex sheilded from the city by a hill (sorry, forgot which
bomb on which city). This was due to inacuracy that modern weapons have
overcome, making smaller weapons more viable due to being able to hit
it`s
target and destroy it with a smaller warhead, which also has less of the
disadvantages of the bigger warheads. As for nukes in space, the effects
are
a lot less against spaceships due to no atmosphere to transmit the shock
way/blast effects of a nuke. A nuke detonating in close proximaty (or
contact) with a ship is a different matter, but the missile would have
to
get pass the pds of the target. A planix/gatling type weapon would be
useless at long range, but would be perfect at close range, preventing
the
missiles making contact with the ship. That is not considering the
problems
of getting a missile into close or physical contact with a high speed
evading target.
Just my take on the idea.

 BIF
 "yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
 strong in arms, thick in head"