(08-17-2024, 11:28 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:
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Putin Urged To Deploy Nukes To Cut Off Ukraine's NATO Aid
Whoa! The headline said "deploy", but the body of the article said "strike" - big difference between those two! Nations "deploy" nukes to create fear and uncertainty in order to scare an opponent into submission. They STRIKE to kill folks and blow shit up. A deployment just makes folks jittery, a strike invites retaliation.
If Putin is going to just deploy nukes, he'll wait until after the US election so he knows if he's going to have to deal with a weak, meaningless response from the third Obama term, or if he's going to have to sleep with one eye open with a second Trump term.
If, on the other hand, he's going to strike with nukes, he'll do that BEFORE the US elections, to be assured of a weak, ineffective US response.
A "deployment" is long term, crosses regime changes, and invites the deployer to take a risk of having to eat shit if a regime comes to power that might stand up to him. A strike, though, is lighting-fast, and once done is done. No one can make the striker un-do it regardless of their stance on the matter after the fact. It's fast, winner takes all, and cannot be undone after a regime change.
Quote:I wonder if Russia has the same exotic nuclear weapons technology as the US? That being a Hydrogen bomb which is claimed to be 99.9% Clean. Authorized, developed & tested under JFK in 1962. This gives the frightening connotation that nuclear war could be won. 60 years later and I'm sure they have it down to tactical size.
No such critter as a "clean" nuke. Instead, radioactive spread is determined by "burst height" - how high above the ground the bomb is exploded. If the fireball touches the ground, it's going to generate masses of fallout that will spread radioactivity downwind of the strike zone. The radioactivity doesn't come from the bomb per se, it comes from condensate coming out of the fireball condensing on vaporized granules of dirt and vaporized buildings, people, etc from the ground, which then precipitates as it cools and is blown down wind.
Neutron bombs are the most insidious - they kill everything in sight while leaving buildings, infrastructure, and the Earth intact and unradiated. So they can be used to kill everyone in a city, and then immediately move in and take over said city for one's self with no radioactive danger to the invasion forces.
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Vladimir Putin's UK nuclear missile targets leaked
"Mad Vlad's UK Targets for nuclear inhalation have been disclosed"? "Nuclear inhalation"? I think they must have meant "annihilation". Don't these papers employ editors or proofreaders any more?
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