RE: Effects of single-ship orbital bombardment

Would you really use ship-to-ship nuke missiles against ground targets?
I would have thought you'd need specialist missiles for atmospheric
re-entry and atmospheric operation.

Assuming you get the warhead to the target then it should be fairly
easy to calculate blast radius etc for current day Kiloton payloads.

Variation with TL?  There must be a limit to how effecient you can make
a nuke of a given payload.  Would the size change much?  Would the bomb
be a LOT cleaner (or dirtier)?

Should be cleaner and less stopable to simply use a streamlined
kinetic weapon than a nuke.

Has anyone done some design work on what a kinetic missile should look
like, costs, size, damage etc?

Bruce...         [email removed]