Iran doesn't give a s*hit about getting "nuked" by Americans. That's enough proof of whether they may be potentially damaging or not. You focus on technicalities, but you fail to see the trees in the forest.
since the 1950s we have bombs that are hundreds of times more powerful than Hiroshima..
Nuclear weapons were the boogey man of your generation, the educational system made sure to imprint that image deeply in your mind and nervous system, to keep you in a constant state of alarm. "Doomsday is coming....any day now!! you just wait....".
Why do the bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima look exactly like any other "convential" bombings in Germany? Why couldn't the US superbombs take down any concrete buildings? It couldn't even evaporate many trees.
Nuclear weapons do not exist. Another Hollywood bullshit story.
The difference between Hamburg, Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that:
Hiroshima + Nagasaki were FIREBOMBED along with 65 other cites before anyone had taken up the Nuke rhetoric.
Splitting atoms does not release energy rapidly, only very very slowly. Fuel Yes, bombs no. DU warheads are real.
Did you know that Fusion between Hydrogen into Helium has never been proven in a lab? Bet you didn't know that. It might not be possible. Even if it were possible, there's no guarantee that Fusion (the opposite of Fission) actually releases energy at all.
survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are some of the most carefully medically studied populations
This is true. There's no doubt that nukes are real.
About low background steel, a lot comes from Scapa Flow. The imperial German fleet that we scuppered there.
Nuclear weapons were the boogey man of your generation
Bogey Man. And yes, they were. Partly due to peace campaigners exaggerating their strength. Worth mentioning that many peace campaigners (at least in the UK) were founded by the USSR via Poland. I know a retired Colonel in PL, a somewhat notorious one, who used to go there to give the money in envelopes.
does not release energy rapidly, only very very slowly. Fuel Yes, bombs no
You should... like... at least watch the HBO series Chernobyl.
The reason energy is released slowly inside a reactor, is because it is specifically designed to do that - with graphite control rods (which remove neutrons from the chain reaction), and water submersion (water gets hotter and less dense, slowing reactivity).
A bomb is designed to do the literal opposite. Not 1 neutron, from each fission, causing another fission... But 1 causing 2, 2 causing 4, 4 causing 8, 8 causing 16, and so on - all within tens of nanoseconds.
The reaction inside a bomb scales exponentially, and on the most compressed time frames.
Did you know that Fusion between Hydrogen into Helium has never been proven in a..
I don't understand why this matters. In a hydrogen bomb, the fusion happens between hydrogen isotopes (THATS WHY ITS CALLED A HYDROGEN BOMB).
Deuterium (^2H) is fused with Tritiuk (^3H), and this produces 1 free neutron, a sh*tload of energy, and yes Helium-4 (but nothing is fused with it).
there's no guarantee that Fusion (the opposite of Fission) actually releases energy at all.
It obviously does produce energy, as shown above.
You take Deuterium (1 proton + 1 neutron) and fuse it with Tritium (1 proton + 2 neutrons). The resulting Helium-4 has only 2 protons and 2 neutrons.
One neutron is now free. This sustains further chain reactions. Helium-4 is also more tightly bound and stable than deuterium or tritium. The tiny amount of mass that is "lost" while forming ^4He is released as energy, because... E=MC^2.
You should... like... at least watch the HBO series Chernobyl.
You are joking, right? You must think if you use the word "HBO " in a sentence., it may help confuse people into mistaking you for a smart person. Super Orwellian dystopian science fiction, complete with flashing television screens splashing the faces of thought criminals. Scientists have had acid thrown into their faces for publishing these studies. They have had death threats, been beaten up in the street, been kicked out of universities and lost tenure. They have had whole student bodies march simply to have them removed from academia. Reporters who commented on these studies as though they could be taken seriously have been fired. Writers who have simply repeated them in print have lost their jobs, their wives and their homes and been driven to bankruptcy.
You must think if you use the word "HBO " in a sentence., it may..
If he means the acclaimed miniseries called Chernobyl, I watched it with someone who was there at the time (and whose health has been destroyed by the incident). He considered it to be an excellent dramatisation of what happened.
Those scientists saved you and your family from turning into mutant ninja turtles.
Thanks for creating a complete straw man and directing attention off onto a wild tangent which has nothing at all to do with what I was talking about. Save this quasi-religious gibberish for the 90 man congoid train you will be pulling in near future. You are a weakling leftist so weak you cannot admit there is anything before which the tiny humans quake in fear since you depend on human institutions to preserve your miserable life.
Some good points Jon...Russia will lose this war a revolution or civil war is already brewing there, the Russian people have had enough.Check out the news channels. Russia is fvcked part 226.
Russia is colapsing.....Russia is fvcked part 227.It is getting close to the end for Putin.
"the last traces of political opposition are being removed leading up to the legislative election"
And yet russians give every indication of loving their system of being ruled by psychos who steal from them and stomp on their heads of they dare protest.... and they can't understand why Ukrainians don't want to live the same degraded lives that they do....
the last traces of political opposition are being removed
F*ck em.
They weren't worth anything.
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If you actually read more deeply, you would see that it was the foreign "Navalny Block" that purposefully lit them on fire, out of a sense of vengeance.
50.000 more starving North Koreans being thrown into the meat grinder at Pokrovsk (when's the parade ? LOL)
Hard earned North Nigerian taxes will be used to pay for this - but the money won't touch the pockets of those poor Korean saps, rather go to pay for some new limo and giant TV for the Kim family
I remember Bobko telling us these were excellent troops, two years ago, before they were all blasted into smithereens. Let's hope they were given some anti drone protection this time and at least a few of them might make it home
It's in their interest to reduce a population that they can't feed.
at least a few of them might make it home
They don't want them home. For the DPRK regime, even some foul asbestos ridden orc town is the decadent west. If they've seen that, it's to the camps for them.
They don't want them home. For the DPRK regime, even some foul asbestos ridden orc..
I know - Stalin had the same opinion of UNNR troops who had seen the lush meadows of East Prussia. Many of them went straight to the camps as soon as they got home
The 50.000 number is quite high though for modern warfare and I assume Putler is planning some suicidal WW1 charge across open countryside to colonize some market town.
Supplies to Ukraine will be even more delayed when uncontrolled immigration brings Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen to power in Britain and France. Two of most important European countries (and both nuclear powers) will become pro-Russian. Then we will see true delays in supplies to Ukraine.
Well, not entirely uncontrolled, no. But enough to antagonize their own populations and lift retarded radicals to power.
Would you want Poland to be pro-r*SSian?
I would want Poland to be pro-Polish. Not pro-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, pro-EU, pro-USA or pro-whatnot but pro-Polish. Alas, I cannot at the moment see a pro-Polish party in Sejm or outside it. They are all pro-something_foreign.