Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The Icarus Project"
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Tsar Bomba was an ironic bomb. The bomber had a maximum range with the bomb of 300 miles, the bomb, detonated at half yield. Because the uranium tamper was omitted, lowering the yield by half, the bomb was ironically, the cleanest nuke ever detonated by mankind.
Detonated a week before I was born as well.
The non-testing of nukes is a non-issue, as for one, the physics are well enough understood. For two, Russia and the US both signed on to the test ban treaty to halt such insanity. With respect, I grew up during the atmospheric testing era, I'm quite literally more radioactive than my children and grandchildren, tossing gamma radiation quite brightly under a gamma camera's baleful gaze. Learned that during a background check, followed by a thyroid scan for my Grave's disease. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer my grandchildren not get that specific glow.
As for Russia's threats, China used to threaten the Soviets on a routine basis, a Soviet joke being "China's Final Warning" and "Paper Tiger", which Russia today enjoys a similar status of doing. I literally live on ground zero, as my area is ringed literally by military depots, so I'd be a bad odor in the air if they actually launched and well, we'd launch and we have more nukes than they have population centers under the last START treaty. They don't, but our society and nation would effectively cease to exist.
Hence, why I call the turdmuffins what they are, "Products of the insanity factory". Expensive as hell to make, expensive to maintain and utterly useless. And I started my military career in such weapons. Stupidest weapons ever frigging invented.
Might be useful if one put them onto interceptors with interplanetary range to ablate part of an incoming asteroid, otherwise, useful as a bustline on a bull.
And when the Soviet Union fell, Russia maintained only one weapon class, nukes. No choice, given the suicidal defense theory embraced by two stupidpowers.
I've no love for Russia, to put things mildly, intense dislike would be more accurate and an understatement. I also have no need of disinformation.
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