The other day I saw a discussing about ballistic missiles on another forum wich lead me to wonder about atomics in the Duniverse.
Cut & paste from a thread I made at Fed2k:
http://forum.dune2k.com/index.php?topic=22136.0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;I forgot if it was Dune or CoD, but it's mentioned in one of these books that a typical Landsraad family had enough atomic weapons to destroy 50 or so other families.
The Tupile planets mentioned in Messiah are carefully hidden by the Guild so that defeated families can have a safe sanctuary, presumably to prevent them from lashing out in a blaze of glory.
But here's the deal: how would one House attack another House's planet with these weapons? They'd have to rely on Guild transportation. But they're always aware of what they're transporting and presumably wouldn't cooperate with such a flagrant violation.
The only conceivable way left to use them against rival Houses would be as a quasi-defensive weapons, i.e. blow invading armies to oblivion once they set foot on your soil.
Am I missing something?