100 megatons is twice the yield of the biggest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba. (Also a Russian weapon).
We gave up the Pershing II, all of the battlefield weapons, and cut our strategic forces by about 90 percent. Obama and his minions are morons, but to be fair the stupid started back under the Bushes.
We don’t have the infrastructure to build these weapons now. I think even our tritium program has been dismantled.
The 100 megaton submarine design is really more of a large, remote control torpedo containing a very dirty nuke. The idea is to hit a beach with it, produce a large amount of fallout because of the sand and crater, and thereby deny our access to the area.
Not likely to be very effective, really, and wouldn’t work well on our east coast because of wind direction.
And yes, our government can produce nukes—the best in the world. But no, our government isn’t going to fill the world in on information about it.
And we have no choice but to find ways to defend our country. So we’ll build more defenses, too, regardless of the screams for building perfect defensive devices that would stop every, single, incoming weapon or building nothing at all.
We would lose much more, if we didn’t nothing at all beyond diplomacy. Too bad about not preserving infinitely perpetually stable markets for investors: the greater impossibility. Markets go up and down, just as civilizations do. The human race will continue.