ukraine war 2024

[PRCD]

The Hohols attacked nuclear power plants.
Ukraine Crosses The Red Line. Russian Nuclear Facilities Are Under Attack. MilitarySummary 2024.3.13 - YouTube
Seems like the fissile material will just blow back on them, as well as fallout from any nuclear escalation. Everyone I've talked to from the Cold War said that tactical nukes will instantly escalate to strategic nukes, but think about how awesome things will be for the survivors after enough radioactive decay has taken place.

 

[Autoprax]

New tactic?

Old tactic.

Mockery.

 

[Autoprax]

I crack up when Russia makes threats.

We are going to blow up the world if you try to stop us from taking over the world.

Sometimes you just got to say fuck it.

Why does anyone even listen to Russia at this point?

I crack up at how the right wingers fall for the Russian con.

Suckers

If Putin can hold the world hostage with the threat of nukes the world should just surrender to him now.

 

[Ifallalot]

I crack up when Russia makes threats.

We are going to blow up the world if you try to stop us from taking over the world.

Sometimes you just got to say fuck it.

Why does anyone even listen to Russia at this point?

I crack up at how the right wingers fall for the Russian con.

Suckers

If Putin can hold the world hostage with the threat of nukes the world should just surrender to him now.

OK GWB

Teenage boy fantasy

 

[Autoprax]

OK GWB

Teenage boy fantasy

Mission Accomplished!

 

[Ifallalot]

Mission Accomplished!

 

[Mr Doof]

I wonder how many of those Russian nukes are operational. Game of chicken there but if their missile silos and contents are maintained anything like the rest of their military, they are looking at a Wile E. Coyote level of successful launches. And Murmansk glows in the dark within 4 minutes if Russia even gets mildly twitchy - Putin knows this.

I think tritium has a half-life of 12-14 years; primarily used to boost yields in fission bombs, especially neutron bombs. I would think a boosted nuke bomb becomes a regular nuke bomb once the tritium decays.

Maintenance is paramount if plans are based on projected yields, but I guess back-up plans are always around, and besides, what's a few megatons between friends?

 

[PRCD]

OK GWB

Teenage boy fantasy

I crack up when COVID 19 - which had an average age of death of 83 in the US - was a reason to shut down the planet but nuclear war is NBD. I guess if you have no offspring and are just biding time until Hell, it's NBD.

 

[PRCD]

I think tritium has a half-life of 12-14 years; primarily used to boost yields in fission bombs, especially neutron bombs. I would think a boosted nuke bomb becomes a regular nuke bomb once the tritium decays.

How many casualties will there be in a 1000 warhead exchange?

Maintenance is paramount if plans are based on projected yields, but I guess back-up plans are always around, and besides, what's a few megatons between friends?

I'm curious what drives the belief that Russia's nukes are out-of-shape but ours are in working order.

 

[Ifallalot]

How many casualties will there be in a 1000 warhead exchange?

I'm curious what drives the belief that Russia's nukes are out-of-shape but ours are in working order.

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb?

Inside an institutional memory lapse of nuclear proportions.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Kento]

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb?

Inside an institutional memory lapse of nuclear proportions.

www.motherjones.com

Mother effing Jones but yeah, I'd like to think our incompetence is somewhat less. MOABs just took over favor.

Not the worst thing in the world if everyone's nuclear stockpile decayed to uselessness.

Defense contractors want to spend the money they're making - a one and done doesn't really help that cause.

 

[PRCD]

Did America Forget How to Make the H-Bomb?

Inside an institutional memory lapse of nuclear proportions.

www.motherjones.com

Based on what I've seen of our industrial output compared to Russia's in shell production, I'm betting our nukes don't work and theirs do. They also have the HGV MIRVs which can evade all of our BMD radars, per the NORAD commander's report to congress in 2021. All the guys who knew how to make nukes are in their 80s or dead, the guys that knew how to test them are in their 70s, and I thought we stopped live testing a long time ago.

The directors of the US nuclear-weapon laboratories and the Commander in Chief of the US Strategic Command rigorously review the safety and reliability of each nuclear weapon type and certify each year that the US stockpile is safe and reliable through a program of science-based stockpile stewardship. This entails a combination of non-nuclear laboratory experiments, advanced computer simulations and forensic monitoring of the health of existing weapons.

I'd bet these inspections are about as good as 737-MAX inspections at this point - piles of paper thrown over the wall with little live data.

 

[Ifallalot]

Mother effing Jones but yeah, I'd like to think our incompetence is somewhat less. MOABs just took over favor.

Not the worst thing in the world if everyone's nuclear stockpile decayed to uselessness.

Defense contractors want to spend the money they're making - a one and done doesn't really help that cause.

I've seen the same article in various sources of various political persuasions but I decided to go to a source that was opposite my preferred viewpoint just to make a point

I agree with everything else you're saying

 

[Mr Doof]

How many casualties will there be in a 1000 warhead exchange?

Probably not enough.

I'm curious what drives the belief that Russia's nukes are out-of-shape but ours are in working order.

Because our military industrial complex has better marketing being displayed in Janes Defense Weekly.

 

[Autoprax]

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Yes, that was the joke. I know you think I don't have a sense of humor but that doesn't stop me from trying.

 

[Autoprax]

Putin is bluffing.

I say call his bluff.

How can we not?

 

[Autoprax]

I crack up when COVID 19 - which had an average age of death of 83 in the US - was a reason to shut down the planet but nuclear war is NBD. I guess if you have no offspring and are just biding time until Hell, it's NBD.

Straw man alert?

Or maybe just another shitty comparison attempt?

 

[Ifallalot]

Yes, that was the joke. I know you think I don't have a sense of humor but that doesn't stop me from trying.

I know. I was continuing the joke

 

[~rwright~]

go Ukraine!

Slava Ukraini!

The origins of 'Slava Ukraini'

In early March 2023, a video surfaced online showing the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The unarmed soldier’s last words were “Slava Ukraini” – a Ukrainian national salute that means “Glory to Ukraine” – before he was shot multiple times and collapsed to his death. Ukrainian...

kyivindependent.com

 

[One-Off]

It's insane. First they went full neocon ideology and now are spouting off trickle down economics

However, when you really look back to the early Progressive movement (eg, Wilson), it all tracks.

I never said I liked Reagan, I was just pointing out how "foreign" aid helps Americans. What is insane is how Republicans pivoted 180 degrees from policies they have espoused since the 60's, all on the heels of a narcissistic grifter.