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Would a nuclear torpedo be practical?

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Does anyone else think a nuclear or thermonuclear torpedo be practical and effective. Just think, while your submerged and safe you could fire just one at a Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier and watch it vaporise in the beautiful and spectacular explosion that is a mushroom cloud, instead of risking lots of planes and pilots with a bombing run or shooting hundreds of missiles.

It could just be a gun-assembly warhead since you don't really need 20 Megatons to destroy a carrier.

So anyone else think it would be practical to create a nuclear torpedo?

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  1. It is a cover story and US  military still likes to  vaporize cities instead.


  2. The US had nuclear torpedoes at one time and the Russians still have them.


  3. I guess it could work, but the Nimitz (and every other carrier in the fleet) carries anti-submarine aircraft and it has long range sonar, so the sub would be destroyed before it could get in range.

  4. that would be a bit overkill don't you think

  5. Could you fire it from 50 or 100 miles away?  That's the distance you would need to be to not get vaporised yourself. Maybe not such a great idea I think. The reason they used planes (long live Enola g*y) to deliver the bombs to Japan in WWII was because that was the fastest get away mechanism they had in those days. a Sub could not move away quickly enough.  

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