tactical thermonuclear gnome

[@wojciechdebowski5014]

Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a thermonuclear gnome, using only some tape, a stolen MIRV, and a gnome

[@ViktorLittrell]

Are you talking about pvz?

[@sf2fa]

I haven't thought about this show in easily ten years, thanks for the reminder lol

[@trinhhuyvinhbao670]

WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO

[@MalevolentCherry]

The zombies will never see this coming

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

Only

[@kck-kck879]

Judging by the rate at which Gnomish technology is advancing, I don't think we stand a chance, guys.

[@DuringDark]

don't let Glough hear you

[@kck-kck879]

He won't hear me, because I'm already dead. Killed, by gnomes

[@WalmartAdvertiser]

@@kck-kck879 I hear knocking at my door - what do i do? (i think it's the gnomes)

[@kck-kck879]

@@WalmartAdvertiser Don't run. And don't be afraid. They can smell your fear. Grab the nearest pair of socks and throw the left-sided one out the window. Should buy you some time.

[@adansmith5299]

​@@DuringDarktoo late, you're banned from the spirit tree

[@Amosus2]

"These three gardens are so annoying. How can we get rid of them?" Dr. Edgar George Zomboss:

[@tdguy1532]

Funny how the Gnomes are some kind of advanced civilization who lives in the infinite in the PvZ Garden Warfare Lore

[@Ollz-k5u]

Beautiful

[@iammonke5970]

This feels like something Aperture Science would try to sell to homeowners as a security device.

[@whereismycup]

The Aperture Science Home Defense Thermonuclear Human Deterrent

[@lsswappedcessna]

@@whereismycup wtf I heard that in Cave Johnson's voice

[@redstonewarrior0152]

Might explain why Gordon wanted to send the thing to space

[@Piglin_Emperor]

Or ask the "State of Hydrogen" they use Nuclear fusion Cars, have Nuclear Fusion guns in house, everyone has a few 500M nuclear weapoms in their houses, somebody has a "Tsar Bomba" cluster bomb equipped on their supersonic nuclear fusion Jet and Has a Space railgun for Nuclear Warheads

[@Piglin_Emperor]

They treat Nuclear Fusion tech as much as we use Water Bottle

[@omnitone]

it's quite impressive that the thermonuclear part, the lithium deuteride is so so small yet does so much. especially with the whole unit being the size of a gnome. incredible technology.

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

I think a huge percentage of the energy released is due to fission. Its basically a positive feedback loop. The fission "implosion" generates fusion but the energy produced by the fusion produces even more fission events

[@maxjoechl5663]

⁠​⁠@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179It's less the _energy_ but more specifically the _neutrons_ that are released during nuclear fusion which are causing a massive increase in fission events. These neutrons are extremely fast; significantly faster than the prompt neutrons released from fission. As such, they don't just split "fissile" material like U-235 and Pu-239, but also "fissionable" nuclei which cannot sustain a fission chain reaction on their own - most notably U-238. As a result, using U-238 for the casing and tamper of a thermonuclear weapon can easily double its yield, albeit at the cost of massively increased radioactive fallout. Hence why the Soviet scientists were probably happy to settle for the 50-megaton "clean" version of the Tsar Bomba (using lead as a tamper) rather than the proposed 100-megaton "dirty" version.

[@asj3419]

It's actually inside a very large gnome.

[@charlie_ck]

_😛_

[@BrokenLifeCycle]

TLDR, most of the energy is from fission of the Plutonium and Uranium. The fusion of Deuterium-Tritium releases extra neutrons which enhances the fission of plutonium, and the energy of that plutonium stage is simultaneously used to implode the uranium and lithium-deuteride second stage, making a bigger boom. --------------------------------------- Fission is hard to do. You have to generate fast moving neutrons and make it hit an atom and hope it splits. The solution is just throw more neutrons at the problem. So, more neutrons, more fission, more boom, got it? Conventional explosives are used to compress a shell of plutonium into a tight ball, increasing density. At some point, the density reaches criticality and the plutonium undergoes fission. This releases neutrons which hit plutonium which release more neutrons. On its own, this is pretty powerful, but at some point, outward force from the core exceeds the inward force of the explosives. The core breaks apart, cease the reaction, and waste the rest of the fuel. So how do we avoid that to release more of the plutonium's energy? There's no casing strong enough to hold the pressure. There's no conventional explosive strong enough to compress the plutonium faster. Solution: Hit the plutonium with more neutrons. The energy of the implosion compresses the D-T to fusion. As D-T fuses, it releases neutrons. Lots of it. More neutrons, more fission, more boom. So how do we make it better? Remember the part where conventional explosives have a limit to how fast you can compress something which ultimately limit the energy released from the fuel? Well, if chemical explosives aren't good enough, perhaps a nuclear bomb will do it. The X-ray energy of first stage fission bomb causes the usually bigger second stage to compress. Sometimes, it's a fusion stage, sometimes, it's another fission stage. Sometimes, they stick a third stage in like the Tsar Bomba did. This video is depicting the second stage composed of U-235 layers with lithium deuteride between. I'd hazard to guess that the compression of the layers cause fission. The inward and outward pressure compresses the deuteride to fuse, release neutrons, and accelerate the fission happening. Either way, it's a bigger boom.

[@lemint]

"what an easy house to steal from" the gnome in my backyard:

[@GatorGusOfficial]

*kicks gnome* “stupid garden gno-“

[@5t3phan]

They can't steal my stuff if there's no stuff left to steal

[@Razor48X]

@@5t3phanand no one who can still steal in a 5km Radius

[@mikk.t.7824]

​@@5t3phansome gangs of hooligans stole my cardboard box house

[@Pinecoje]

I got mine from Costco and now the government wants it back. My money my gnome

[@malldvd]

I love that you can deduce exactly how someone came up with this idea: "Hey, doesn't a Gnomes hat kinda look like a MIRV?"

[@MichaelZombies-o5s]

thats actually exactly what i asked nav9 to make and he made this!

[@milktruckdriver]

MIRV = Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle. I.e. multiple warheads in a ring on top of an ICBM. Gnome's hat looks like a single warhead, so you'd need multiple gnomes.

[@iitzfizz]

Yeah, his name is Mirvin

[@paulgemperlein626]

@@milktruckdriverSIRV

[@stop8738]

@@paulgemperlein626Yes SIRV is the best reply in this thread. 🙌😂

[@somebnnuy]

This takes "You've been GNOOOOOOMED" to a whole new level.

[@JanoschNr1]

*it blows the realms of

[@BR1.618]

"Use of this prank might cause explosive feedback"

[@UnhingedJessie]

WoOoh

[@vencelloth]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HyperionNox]

I'm gnot a gelf I'm gnot a gnoblin I'm a gnuke an you've been 🎉

[@bugstuff2121]

both the plants and the zombies decided to put the war on hold and team up to defeat the gnomes after they found out the gnomes have not only mastered time but also thermonuclear engineering.

[@JS-gv3kf]

"Behind every blade of grass in America, there is a tactical thermonuclear gnome." -Isoroku Yamamoto

[@Umbrella_Aerospace_Corporation]

Shall not be infringed applies to tactical thermonuclear gnomes as well.

[@calbum7078]

Fun fact this can be the canonical anatomy of gnomes in your D&D campaign if you want

[@jumpingbeanmoth]

the fact that one of the players in my campaign is a rogue gnome makes this comment even better

[@then00brathalos]

​@@jumpingbeanmoth"You trip down the stairs entering the dungeon" "Haha, youre so clumsy" "Roll for destruction..." "...what ?" "I said... Roll for D E S T R U C T I O N"

[@togeluga_the_cat]

im playing D&D for my first time as a DM i have a question whos gona stop me from doing this?

[@Big-The-Cat]

​@@togeluga_the_cat no one

[@MendaxLc]

i have never thought that i needed to watch a video about tactical thermonuclear gnome until i watch a video about a tactical thermonuclear gnome.

[@frogman5862]

Love that I got an unskippable 15 second ad before this video.

[@Patrick-857]

Imagine not having Revanced on Android and Ublock Origin on desktop.

[@GabeTheSilly]

real lol

[@octogecko]

KZbin Revanced.

[@squash9189]

KZbin Regressed

[@TheRhalf]

uBlock Origin

[@Galm1Cipher0]

Guess you could say. It’s Thergnomenuclear

[@Insanity_TM]

I hate and love this

[@leschatssuperstars1741]

k

[@tongpoo8985]

Excellence

[@spammailruify]

Nucular... its pronounced Nucular...😂

[@RandomGS]

Thermognomular

[@momazosluis3]

the knights may have more people, but gnomes got this

[@pizzabot3778]

Crazy Dave has had enough

[@Mbxstudios]

" too much zawmbies awn ma lawn now I go thermonuclear mode" *guitar riff* Voice: *YEAHHHH*

[@MrMollusk7]

The reentry shield has terrifying implications as to how this object is deployed

[@MTF.TAU5..Bob.]

its either a rocket gnome or probably just a mirv made small and forgot to take the shield off

[@proxlordz]

It's an icbm

[@proxlordz]

*icbg (intercontinental ballistic gnome)

[@TheMightyEngineYT]

someone from the iss throws it down, obviously

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

You put the gnome in a space rocket in Half Life 2, I think that's enough context to make an informed idea how it's going to be used.

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Always wondered what the interior of our Trident warheads looked like. 16 Gnomes per missile - no known defence…

[@hoglump-orcbutler1427]

No gnome defence...

[@Kevinsmemes]

As a person who studied nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for 2-3 months I can confirm that this is a thermonuclear gnome

[@jugoderefrescodemagmajose]

It really works???

[@Mickey_1100]

No way

[@Kevinsmemes]

@@jugoderefrescodemagmajose This could actually be possible.

[@amafuji]

As someone who has studied medieval European Folklore surrounding gnomes, I can confirm this is a functional nuke.

[@nice3333333333]

As a person who has internet connection and has been on Wikipedia at least two times in my lifetime, I can officially confirm and approve your statement

[@Denis_G1.0]

Oh, so that's the true reason the gnome in space achievement from half-life 2 episode 2 exists.

[@owenmachine4656]

if it werent for the gnome, the rocket wouldnt have had the power to do what it did

[@leosanchez7997]

That's why there is a gnome in left 4 dead 2.

[@meister.engineer7149]

We're going to win against the knights with this one.

[@thickboi7570]

THE CRUSADERS WILL NOT FALL

[@BusterHryckow-d4h]

get the hazmat suits my fellow knights the gnomes are getting cocky!

[@a8_a8]

@@thickboi7570they won’t have time to fall after detonation

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

If you ever feel useless, remember the TTG has a reentry heatshield when its a gardening weapon

[@CarlosAM1]

drop it from orbit

[@MinosPrimeOfficial]

@@CarlosAM1that would defeat its purpose!

[@TheGamerDevious]

Not if I’m gardening from space

[@ericmaher4756]

Haven’t you ever stepped on a gnome before?

[@30pranaypawar17]

U can launch that into air by throwing it like a projectile.

[@laya8880]

Yard gnomes gained their height of popularity in the 70s and 80s, and during th Cold War it became a popular superstition to put gnomes in your yard to ward off an attack.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

Clearly they work

[@torinnbalasar6774]

Everyone knows not to test the gnome's Mutually Assured Destruction personality.

[@paquixyz4000]

Gnome Trophy

[@tetracube5089]

​Their 'height' of popularity

[@Smthn_Wicked]

Imagine watching your garden gnome fly at Mach 2 towards a missle

[@The-gender-goblin]

Ah, yes. With this the knights shall fall!

[@Poltergleigered]

imagine getting the gnome to the end of half life 2 episode 2 with a mod like this

[@aortaplatinum]

If you fail the tower defense waves before the launch and one of the striders gets to the rocket it plays stock footage of a nuke going off and an SFM recreation of either the Majora's Mask game over animation or the launch of Skynet from Terminator 2 but with Gordon Freeman instead of Link or Sarah Connors

[@UndesignatedFellow]

Imagine some random Combine shooting Gnome Chompski and vaporizing the entire map in a millisecond.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

​@@UndesignatedFellow Quick way to get your entire race facing the same fate when you bungle an entire invasion that badly.

[@psychoticfam7538]

It’s quite awesome the ending showed it reacting in real time, it being realistically top heavy and falling over is a really nice touch we may or may not realize, though all appreciate.

[@elbo7755]

cool

[@ForeStorm2]

Dead Internet has reached KZbin

[@levibarns7576]

The fact that someone drew this out and animated it is crazy

[@astrodawgo]

“Sir we’ll have to confiscate your gnome” “Why” “It may have a tactical thermonuclear missile.”

[@Requis_Bartholomew_Jones]

Personally i prefer to use 2 parts plutonium-239 to one part uranium-235. But nonetheless still a great looking thermonuclear gnome

[@Piglin_Emperor]

Really? Ever thought of using the Black hole conversion of Matter to Energy, which is over 100 times more than nuclear fusion one? Pluto destruction Granted with only one gnome

[@spyfromteamfortress272]

Ah, Perry the Platypus. Allow me to introduce you to my new superweapon, the DESTROY YOUR LAWN INNATOR!

[@BassInASummer]

Absolutely loved your DIY tutorial - trying this at home later!

[@VHSo_o]

dont think they made it QQ

[@inciacci549]

Instructions unclear, caused the Fallout franchise.

[@baloog8]

Let us know if you are able to enrich uranium next week.😅

[@SourceBrother]

"If you are reading this achievement, Gabe Newell has successfully launched Gnome Chompski into space."

[@carlchapman4053]

I see someone played Sim Bustin' Out and I welcome another man of culture.

[@NonConsensual]

I’m not a gnelf… I’m not a gnoblin… I’M A TACTICAL GNUKE

[@Vamp_flower]

And you been gnomed (explodes killing thousands)

[@trikholit7064]

That's why valve sent gnome to space

[@endertyme207]

Imagine seeing a garden gnome falling in the air, and then a mile-wide fireball appears two seconds later

[@SlapStyleAnims]

Intercontgnomental Ballistic Missile classic

[@wherethehellamiat]

Freebird goes with literally anything

[@MrX1230_]

I love that it has a reentry heat shield so you can also drop it from space. Very good design decision

[@admiralshellshock4566]

POV: the gnomes in my garden when the ATF executes a no knock warrant on my log cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho

[@SlapStyleAnims]

Based

[@molk415]

(smiles satisfied while lighting a cigar) DRG is satisfied with the results, as always, it is a pleasure to work with Gnomes.

[@doyouknoedawae]

Japanese Soldier: Why is the sky raining gnomes? Gnome: 💥🧙‍♂️💥🧙‍♂️💥

[@Norsilca]

I love that this shitpost would be classified in the 70s

[@superbroadcaster]

We're making it out of the watchlist with this one boys

[@chingezkhagan4400]

Missed the opportunity to use "Tactical Thergnomenuclear warhead"

[@marcuscarana9240]

I love this. I love the idea of a super secret agent who needs to escape from a corrupt and evil government. The corrupt government sends out a Swat team to capture her but she escapes, calls her entire family, gets them to a van before the Swat team arrives at her doorstep. The Swat team gets inside the house only to find it's empty. Cut to the scene where the family is now in the van racing towards freedom. Her teen son worries "what if they catch up to us." She says "No they won't". Cut back to the house, the gnome's eyes turn red and causes a mini nuke explosion.

[@Satyred]

I heard the Mini nuke took out a 1/3 of the state!

[@Nnneemo]

Hasta la vista! Baby.

[@whereismycup]

Gnomed

[@marcuscarana9240]

@@whereismycupGnomed. :)

[@marcuscarana9240]

@@Nnneemo Ahh Terminator II, slowly becoming a forgotten gem.

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

I love how the most fatal explosive type known to man explodes like a gasoline can.

[@JRAnimationStudios]

This generation of engineers will be the greatest

[@joshuahilliker2364]

To be fair, if you can do something just as goofy and impractical as this and STILL make it work, then you ARE a better engineer than those that came before who made something boring but practical and just stopped there.

[@Unfunnyfunyname]

worst*

[@SlainByTheWire]

Imagine seeing these on parachutes while the jet flies away.

[@ezrasuniverse7444]

I never thought that “get gnomed” could be the last words you hear

[@Pudding404]

The last thing you hear before your mortal form gets vaporized: *"YEW JUST GOT GNOME'D"*

[@maeveszy]

I totally read this as “Tactical thermometer gnome” and I didn’t understand until halfway through. I was like ah yes the thermometer gnome. Super useful for daily life. Comes with a special side feature of nuclear blast.

[@scrublord95]

my favorite part here is how accurate this is to an actual fusion bomb

[@koopaon1052]

In my opinion, the position of the hollow terracotta shell could affect the movement in air, causing the missle to lean in one direction and not hit it’s desired target. You might want to make the point of the T.T.G leaning straight upwards for smooth aerial movement.

[@TheMightyEngineYT]

well it's a nuke so should take care of the problem 🤷‍♂️

[@e-spac-espacecorporation6886]

This is a thermonuclear tactical mine in the body of a garden gnome, lol I think it will be left in the gardens of opponents to destroy with an efficiency of 95.6%

[@michaelturk7237]

"These atoms are rated 'E' for 'Everyone' " ---the megaton device sitting atop his silly little head

[@rachelberkhahn9612]

Adding spin stabilization nulls out the deviation, and permits steering the gnome using only roll control.

[@glockquestionmark]

The body of the gnome will act as storage for proppelant

[@nicholasgogel5606]

Such a beautiful and whimsically magical creature deserving of tributes and respect…

[@Pintstraw]

“Fellow gnomes, RUN!”

[@ZarHakkar]

I was about to say, that gnome is gonna be so top-heavy it would immediately fall over... and it did.

[@Fugieko.]

Nah the gnomes have us our garden its doomed

[@craigcooknf]

The fact that someone took the time to make this is brilliant.

[@joaovitorreisdasilva9573]

I... I would like to meet the mind that can conceive such a concept into the mortal realms. It possesses a terrifying maddening beauty.

[@MichaelZombies-o5s]

hi its me

[@joaovitorreisdasilva9573]

@cock1056 greetings Sir, walk me through your thought process. Why a Gnome? Why leave so much empty space on his belly? Why not use a more fitting design given your choices?

[@thereaper672]

​@@joaovitorreisdasilva9573it doubles as a fragmentation bomb

[@Mitchigon]

i had an idea for Motion triggered napalm gnomes lol

[@BronzeDragon0009]

I dont know why but having a foam filling inside a thermonucular device is one of the funniest parts to this.

[@bami2]

The foam is actually a very important part in a thermonuclear warhead, as it needs to turn into a superheated plasma to properly funnel the radiation pressure from the primary into the secondary. You can't just stick some polystyrene in there and call it good. The US was in bit of shit creek when they needed to refurbish a couple of types of weapons originally built in the 70s and 80s but found out in the 00s they didn't actually have the process to manufacture it anymore and it took a lot of effort (and money) to remake the production process to enable them to make more of it. With the wrong type of foam it could not be guaranteed that it would perform as well as the original foam designed by Oak Ridge and could lead to fizzles: weapons with way lower yield than anticipated. Look up FOGBANK for more information.

[@Moon_Struck2882]

The design is very human

[@gotyouchip1179]

I was hoping it would be a stationary charge. Like a Trojan horse type deal, when the enemy is taking over a valuable position you leave behind this inconspicuous gnome and hours later boom.

[@Filbo_Fraggins]

I might get my neighbour a gnome for Christmas, and then run like hell.

[@ZavierFray]

Gnome with inches of his life fighting against stuffed toys Teddy: Any last words? Gnome: *cough* Yeah... get Gnomed

[@kingofgranges]

Huge amount of skill and effort put into something really stupid... Love it! ❤

[@cynthiapaslawski6912]

0:10 I'm done

[@johnwatters1496]

It’s what you came for

[@Potato_power12]

This will surely defeat the knights, onwards, fellow thermonuclear gnomes

[@Nathan_Poster_EditZ]

The knights won’t stand a chance

[@andrescolomarcedeno9952]

The Turorial: We willl just need some simple materials that you can find around ur house Also the tutorial:

[@NamelessY8]

Imagine you are a swat team and you are pushing a house, and you walk into the basement and see this halfway built sitting next to 30 more

[@윤희건-w3q]

0:43 I love the part where he said “It’s Gnoming time” and Gnomed all over the place

[@BassGuitarGuy128]

Who knew the Travelocity travel gnome was packing so much heat. He seemed so innocent.

[@ElizabethEaston-tx9vp]

Velocity is the keyword.

[@ChaoticIdiot616]

I drew an ad for this on a post-it note once

[@creativegamer_03]

SO THATS WHY WE HAVE TO BRING CHOMPSKI TO THE ROCKET IN HL2:E2! IT'S TO MAKE THE BLAST MORE EXPLOSIVE by an inch.

[@SuperEmmetMan]

0:15 did no one notice the ceramic reentry heatshield 😂

[@Urban_Kart]

“Well done lad!”

[@temporarily-gone]

Now this is what I call home security!

[@CeXn]

Didn't know you could fit such power into one gnome, wonder if the one in Half-Life 2 was similar, and i was droping it quite often :D

[@connorbninja4696]

Gnomes we must use this against the knight

[@soylentgreenb]

Nitpicks: The primary needs a trigger mechanism, such as a flying plate "air lens"; this is why it is usually drawn ovoid-shaped. The primary should have a tamper, usually beryllium because it's quite transparent to x-rays and a good neutron reflector which reduces critical mass. The D-T mixture is not stored in the pit of the primary, it is injected just in time from a reservoir. There is some secret sauce (tm) McGuffin hinted at in some documents between the primary and secondary that is likely made of neutron reflective beryllium used to modulate the neutron flow from the primary to the secondary and prevent the sparkplug from going too early; compressing a cold lump of lithium deuteride is possible, compressing it when it is already millions of degrees is near impossible.

[@SearinoxNavras]

Don't forget the neutron initiator is also missing.

[@ivanthegod49]

bro is on a list with this info

[@fel524]

How the fuck do you know how to make thermonuclear bombs and should I be scared

[@Freedmoon44]

​@@fel524 well knowing the theory of how to do it is one thing doing it is entirely differant ^^

[@airgin3000]

Do you actually drink Soylent Green? That thing looks nasty.

[@olocippicolo]

it's for things like this that I love 3D modelling 😂

[@douglas9220]

This is just genius and scary. Yard gnomes are deadly.

[@Reborn666skull]

Laughed my ass off when it fell down and exploded xD

[@bazookaman1353]

This is why Blender users should have state mandated extra free time.

[@Spencer-g7v]

Ima gnome and you’ve been gnomed

[@nicolaschew443]

The gnome you put in the rocket at the end of HL2 Ep2 is secretly a nuke. 😂

[@VenatorHelldivers]

Thermognomecular bomb.

[@kirboMusic]

The knights aren't getting away with this one...

[@howardmaryon]

The only 2 ways that this demonstration could have been better, are: 1. The detonation could have been depicted more accurately by an instantaneous white screen, with silence instead of the sound of the explosion, and 2. The lyrical music of the excellent metal band from Antwerp, Gnome.

[@XREXP0]

here before this blows up

[@Chris-P-Cox]

The knights aren’t gonna see this one coming

[@Regular_guy678]

The knights stand no chance with our decoy nuke gnomes

[@questionable69420]

Thank you for the useful tutorial 😃

[@Drakey_Fenix]

This is going to be one of those videos people come back to in like 20 years and will be like "wow do you guys remember the nuclear gnome video?"

[@SgtLuke]

Imagine if a country *actually* made this, placed this in a foreign country, and then it randomly got knocked over by the wind or destroyed by someone else. Imagine this monstrosity of a gnome is how Nuclear War starts. It probably happened in some parallel universe and no one bothered investigating how a nuclear explosion occured.

[@-Fidelis-]

Its gnoming time 9:05 AM President JFG (John Fitzgerald Gnome) gives the all clear to launch the TTG (Tactical Thermonuclear Gnome) 9:15 AM The TTG has been launched from its silo 9:27 Goblintopia launches counter-strike TTG (Tactical Thermonuclear Goblin) 9:35 AM The TTG reaches ground zero and destroys all of Goblintopia 9:36 AM All of Goblintopia is gone, reduced to atoms 9:41 AM Confirmation about the destruction reaches Gnomeland 9:53 AM The TTG reaches Gnomeland 9:54 AM All of Gnomeland is destroyed, just like Goblintopia 10:00 AM All bunkers receive confirmation that all of the world has been ruined

[@sandvichguy]

When plants aren’t enough to defend your home from zombies:

[@MrGaryf8]

MY WEEEEE MEN

[@aydumarpayranid3155]

How big would the explosion of a gnome sized thermonuclear bomb actually be? Genuinely curious.

[@TheDisassemble]

It couldn't really work because the mass is too small to go critical

[@G-raverobber]

depends on how big the gnome is

[@cbrahana5202]

The M388 was smallest fielded warhead, with a diameter of 28 cm (or 11 in). This wouldn’t fit in a reasonably sized garden gnome. A pot belly would be the best place to put the nuclear material, though that slightly departs from the classical gnome form. However, there are reasons to believe that smaller warheads have been explored. If you’re willing to accept a deliberate fizzle, where you still get significant energy release, you could potentially achieve dramatic size reductions. The simulation work necessary to determine the resulting yield has been left as an exercise to someone who doesn’t mind visits from the FBI, though.