Things TLs 7-9 would be interesting to see WITHOUT

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

Huh. So it's really not that crazy an idea at all, then? If you're correct, we invented nuclear power before we invented the nuclear bomb.

Considering that you need pretty highly enriched nuclear material to make the bomb, by my understanding, I'm not sure you could make a bomb without first having reactors capable of generating power. Not necessarily actually used to generate power, but capable of it.

(I am not a nuclear engineer...)

Inventing nuclear power without coming up with the idea that it could be used as a bomb at about the same time, that I'm not too sure about the likelyhood of.

Originally Posted by nick012000

It'd wind up as a dictatorship, except instead of it being led by the Leader, it's led by the King, and instead of a cabal of followers heading various agencies, he's got various nobles doing the same thing.

Why couldn't it be more like feudalism? That sounds like absolute monarchy to me, which isn't quite the same thing.

[Lord Carnifex]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Considering that you need pretty highly enriched nuclear material to make the bomb, by my understanding, I'm not sure you could make a bomb without first having reactors capable of generating power. Not necessarily actually used to generate power, but capable of it.

(I am not a nuclear engineer...)

Um... you're right that you'd probably be able to build a small controlled nuclear reaction before you'd build and set off an uncontrolled one, but that has nothing to do with enrichment.

Enrichment of uranium means using gas centrifuges to select U-235 out of a mix of U-235 and U-238. Gas centrifuges are non-nuclear technology and don't require a reactor to build or operate.