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Originally Posted by noonereal
Don't you mean the Neutron bomb?
The cobalt bomb was designed to eliminate all life on earth.
Anyone ever wonder if this was built and is classified?
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The idea of the cobalt bomb was to do an air burst upwind of the area. The radioactive cobalt has a certain half-life so that by the time the wind has blown it over the area all the people eventually die but once the radio activity is gone the infrastructure is still there, albeit a bit dusty.