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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 8927252" data-attributes="member: 28487">I think that most of the responses are getting the basics wrong. They are focusing on the bomb and not getting its nature right.They key element of nuclear weapons in the real world is that the physics is pretty straight forward but the engineering and construction is difficult and needs a strong manufacturing base to accomplish.The bottlenecks to effective Canned Sunshine is production of sufficient raw materials in the required purities and the manufacture of precision components needed to make that material go Bang rather than Fizz.Both of these need a substantial industrial base and the ability to mass manufacture precision components and that is just for the bomb. The delivery systems (rockets and bombers) also need even more precision mass manufacturing capacity.This means a lot of interesting technical secrets known to varying degrees by an awful lot of people, giving plenty of targets for various intelligence and counter intelligence agencies to get their teeth into.The complete opposite of the small cabal of arcanists that have the Apocalypse Spell (Like the "Rain of Colourless Fire")This world is going to be closer to Ebberon but even less D&D'ish. The states are stronger and have much more control of their borders and internal policing. No untamed frontiers, magic is less trad D&D and more steampunk/artificer based. Little or no high level magic (spells past 5th level or so).</blockquote>

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