TLDR
Build a 600 mile long accelerator that shoots neutrino beams through the earth to make all nuclear bombs lightly explode, rendering them useless.
Cool.
Build a 600 mile long accelerator that shoots neutrino beams through the earth to make all nuclear bombs lightly explode, rendering them useless.
Cool.
The paper notes that this is too much, of course.
But IMO this will be used to scare the nuclear weapons owners, they will need to invest a lot into shielding all their bombs or reducing the number of such bombs, probably at that time when this tech is possible we will have antimater bombs
There’s no way to shield your missiles from a beam that can penetrate right through the planet.
You then nuke that country out of existence, as is standard policy if governments fear an attack on their strategic capability.
You could also, eg, track the facility ingesting that incredible amount of power — whose signature would be basically impossible to hide from satellites.
With a sprinkle of sarcasm.