Family atomics

[TMA_1]

I dont think it ever has said what it is. just opinion

[Caid Ivik]

has anyone heard of automatic hand nuclear missile launcher ;D

Just a nuclear mortar. Project Little David, I think in 1954. Really!

[Emperor Harkonnen]

huh, odd. but it is cool. that mortar has got to have some firing range then.

just as my invented automatic nuclear launcher which I am going to make...... I shall sell it to Osama Bin Laden.

[Caid Ivik]

Before firing it's crew had to dig a ditch.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Wow. So how many megatons?

[TMA_1]

no no it was a few kilotons. remember though that the bombs in japan that massacred around 150000 people were only a few kilotons. they dug a ditch for the shockwave that would spread very far. also they didnt know much about the horrible affects that the strong force had on people. digging a ditch was for protection the best way they had at the time.

[Caid Ivik]

Why when someone heard "nuke" he thought straight on thermonuclear devices of 20 MT equivalents. It had carried just tactical warhead of 150 kt. Usual like those in our arsenal. Until 1989. But also mortar has good range, about 10 km. Spread of light nuke should be 3-4 km.

[neonext]

i havent read any of the dune books, and i have some questions about this topic.

my understanding of this discussion is that in the dune universe, if a great house used nuclear weapons they would be obliverated by the other houses. i want to know, does this apply to all nuclear devices, even little tacticle ones? and does this apply to the empire? (is the empire even a house?)

also, were nukes ever used in ANY of the dune books? and are there any dune games that have nukes in them?

sorry for all the stupid questions, i hope someone will be happy to answer them

[TMA_1]

yes it goes for any type of nuclear weapons or nuclear devices to power weapons. Even if an explosion mimics a nuke (like shield-laser interaction)

the houses willcome down on that house.

[gryphon]

But the rule only applies of a House uses the atomic against another House [ people ].

When used for other purposes

- DUNE spoilers -

like against the Shield Wall in Dune I it doesn't apply.

And Bashar Teg used a an atomic powered weapond, if I recal correct to destroy the surface of Dune.

Lasguns where also used against the God Emperor [ several times ] to assesenate him.

The empire is not a house on itself. Although the house of it's emperor is a house by itself the empire exists out of great and small houses, the Landsraad, Bene Gesserit, The Guild, CHOAM [ and some other smaller ones not to forget the planets and such ;) ].

[TMA_1]

I agree with you up to a point but from what I have read about House Corrino. It is much more powerful and at times is called the imperial house.

[neonext]

thanks for the info guys, i really appreciate it :)

[Vanguard3000]

***SPOILERS***

And Bashar Teg used a an atomic powered weapond, if I recal correct to destroy the surface of Dune.

That was the Honoured Matres that did that, to destroy Teg (and the spice)

Lasguns where also used against the God Emperor [ several times ] to assesenate him.

Lasguns alone aren't nuclear weapons.

Also, keep in mind that, with these examples, the Great Houses are more obscure than the pre-Atreidean era. They have less power, while rulers (i.e. Leto II) have much more power.

[exatreide]

and shields were banned in letto's time so shield lasgun relations werent possible