User blog comment:SolZen321/Things I don't like in the Ultra Series/@comment-5920426-20160130034132/@comment-5527544-20160130173623

That was not a nuke, Ultra Garrison placed bombs all around the city and set them off. Even then, it was a threat that was in their solar system, within their borders. These super weapons they wanted to create, would only be useful if they were sent across space. If said target was advance enough to reach Earth, then it was advance enough to detect the incoming missile and stop it.

My point is, these fools wanted so badly to create a weapon to scare away their enemies, they completely overlooked the obvious fault in their logic: If it is advance enough to threaten them, it's advance enough to stop their weapon, if it can't stop their weapon, then clearly it is not a threat to them.