Yes...
...but will it play Crysis on max settings
French-centred IT provider Bull has announced an order from the UK's nuclear weapons apparatus for a third bullx supercomputer. The new "Blackthorn" machine will join two existing bullx "Willows" already in use by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). "The contract with AWE is a clear demonstration of Bull's ability to …
but if you know your Trident warhead will go bang in a satisfyingly city destroying way, what are they actually using these things for? Are we planning on making warheads that can make an even more impressive bang, which would seem to be slightly pointless, or is it all part of an elaborate scam where we pretend to have a nuclear capability but actually don't?
Lets face it, come the sad day they should ever be needed, we wouldn't want our buckets of instant sunshine mounted atop Trident to fly a few thousand miles, spoof its way through any defense systems and arrive on its target only to go pop when the detonators go off, rather than obliterate the poor sods underneath it.
Much like flying manned bombers in there and dropping leaflets; if you've gone that far, finish the job properly.
You also want to design new devices that yield the same-sized bang from a smaller package. After all, if you're sticking it on a missile, payload weight is everything. And when you're talking MIRVs, if you can make them each 10% lighter / smaller, you can toss a couple more onto a missile and go for more targets.
It's all very precise, this annihilation thingy.
could instead devote themselves to dismantling those weapons of mass destruction, so that the species might stand a sporting chance of making it through the next few decades ? When done, that would, of course, force them to seek a slightly different line of work, but people with that level of education and competence should be able to find gainful employment....
Henri