I have serious doubts about how “clean” even a modern nuke is but modern weapons are supposedly more efficient and therefore cleaner than WW2 equivalents. The other factor is where the bomb is detonated.
At ground level, it irradiates and throws up more material than if it is detonated high up in the air in an air burst configuration.
In any case, any kind of nuke crosses a diplomatic line that would bring a world of hurt against Putin which is not worth the tactical win. His nukes are way more useful as a saber to rattle to scare off Western countries from supporting Ukraine too effectively out of fear of escalation.
I could only see Putin use nukes in a desperate last-ditch defense against invaders at Moscow’s gates.
Nukes need high explosives. The most modern ones use extremely stable explosives but some of the Cold War era accidents in the US often did go boom but not BOOOOOOOM.
Still bad exploding weapons-grade radioactive material. Thankfully not as bad as a nuclear explosion.
It’s worse than you could imagine. There’s a trend of people filming themselves repeatedly pulling the slack off their trigger with fully loaded Glocks. Pointed at their dick !
I feel you. I’m a left winger and target shooting is one my hobbies so I have a lot of respect for firearm safety.
It hurts watching firearms handling in movies, watching people doing potentially lethal stupid things with them when more. There a just a handful of very sensible rules to follow and they are designed so that following at least a couple of them at the same time can prevent a tragedy. Yet people want to look cool and ignore every single one and inevitably blood is spilled.
All the knowledge in the world at our fingertips and this is how some choose to use the Internet. It’s heartbreaking.
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
I’m not surprised with current wars it ends up being used like that but it was originally intended to destroy materiel. Its grandpa used to kill tanks in early WW2 but they got too armored.
Eh, sure you have your fringe people but most “satanists” are atheists who are exposing how religious conservatives are breaking the separation between Church and State.
If they can put Bible reading or the 10 commandments in schools or public office, then Baphomet and “satan” fun reading time should be allowed as well.
It’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster gag (ramen!) but in a package designed to rub conservative Christians extra hard. It’s all very cheeky.
Sorry to hear neighbour. If it’s any consolation, on some of your highways, you can go hella fast.
In Switzerland we don’t even have high-speed rail. We have at best pendular high-speedish trains but they are quite neat. We do pay a steep price for it but it beats being required to drive everywhere US-like (minus some exceptions).
It was supposed to come shortly after the first movie then it went radio silence. I had given up on it considering the new head of HBO is so trigger happy.
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Putin starts tactical nuke drills near Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Russia amps up nuclear threat.
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