• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

    It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

    …And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.


    But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

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      Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.

      #smallcarrotproblems

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      Good time to remind that, in all History, only one country used nuclear bombs in a war.

      Twice!

      For “Research Purposes” ™

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    Just shows he is desperately trying to create many more distractions from the Epstein files to see what works.

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      Orange Don wants to make sure he can launch them the next time someone calls him names, without anyone being able to stop him

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    A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

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      100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth

      It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn’t actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.

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      True, but don’t tell them that, it’s better if they waste money on useless nuclears than genocide technology.

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      If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

      Ohh we got you fam.

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      Do you mean 100 all at once? Because we’ve been averaging 26.5 per year for the last 80 years

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        Hmm I don’t think so. If it is true those are over the ocean or something. I mean an attack with 100 missiles would destroy nearly any country. Russia is especially vulnerable because they only have a couple of cities with any population in them. Modern nukes are 50-75x the yield of the ones they dropped on Japan. There are all kinds of externalities. They can poison the ground water for generations. They can kill any life feeding in the area. They can cause fallout which is like a radioactive dust cloud covering everything. It isn’t good.

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            You are misunderstanding what I wrote. I’m aware that setting nukes off over the ocean won’t end all life in earth. I never said that tho and you might have me mixed up with someone else. I said that it will end life as we know it and it absolutely will, setting nukes off over cities will cause radioactive fallout, as well as destroy power grids, the internet infrastructure. It will poison the water. You have to also remember that it will short out the hundreds of nuclear power plants potentially leading to meltdowns, unless they are fail safe designs. I don’t think most plants are designed to withstand an emp. Either way a nuclear war would likely mean a reset for human civilization. If you don’t believe this then I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise.

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    Are they trying to figure out what the expiration date is on nuclear warheads? The fuq are they still needing to test for?

    Let’s just blow up our arsenal for the heck of it boyz, it will make for a good twitter post!

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    The real crazy people who would cause a nuclear wae are israel and the usa leaders not Iran

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    Testing for what exactly? Do we not know enough about them already?

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      You have to. He didn’t start weapons testing for defense he’s going to go into war and take the offensive

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    This dumbass couldn’t tell you what nuclear testing was if you explained it to him like he was 5

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      “I don’t give a fuck, something racist, several n words. It’s gonna help me stay in power and that’s all I care about and the only thing that matters.” - child rapist president dump

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        It’s very expensive too. It takes a LOT of time and resources to make spicy rocks even more spicy. It’s a huge waste of money to test a system we perfected decades ago when you can simulate detonations for almost nothing.