Nathan Radke

And because it used a nuclear engine, the exhaust would be radioactive.

Oh, so it sounds like a perfectly safe device.

So flying around for days and days, squishing things and being radioactive, and the vehicle could hold up to 16 one-megaton nuclear bombs.

Oh, no.

Well, they went pretty far in building this one, unlike some of the other projects.

This one, actually, it cost a lot of money and they did a lot of testing.

The idea is you'd fire this thing off.

It would blaze a squish trail of radioactive fallout.

You'd never see it coming.

And because it was going three times faster than sound, you'd never hear it coming.

And then after it destroyed 16 cities with its 16 bombs, it would crash itself into one final target, leaving behind a crater and lethal cloud of nuclear waste.

Great.

Sounds like a wonderful device.

Where can I buy one?

See, again, we're very, very clever.

But it was decided because it was too dangerous to even test, eventually the program was canceled.

But my point is this.

Things seem grim and scary right now.

There's no denying it.

But we've managed to survive our cleverness so far.