Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "The New York Times"
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If you're close enough to feel it, you're safe. Otherwise, you'd not even realize that you've got a problem. Before the signal from your eyes can hit the brain, the blast wave would've obliterated your organs. You'd have to be nearly inside of the fireball for a 9 kiloton nuclear blast, thermonuclear blast, you'd have to be inside of the fireball for the radiation to impact you and well, inside of the fireball, suffocation isn't your problem. Being hotter than the surface of the sun might be a bit more concerning.
This is just another OpEd that was funded by Russia to encourage our surrender and allow their conquest of whoever they want to invade.
The laugh, I live a couple of miles from Three Mile Island, which is also ringed with DoD depots, so I'm literally living on ground zero.
And I used to work on nuclear weapons in the military at the beginning of my military career. Retired from the war zone, managing to duck at the right times often enough.
Nobody's going to use these phenomenally expensive to maintain and deploy money wasters, they'll just keep maintaining them, not aiming them at anyone because it looks good and well, aiming them takes a minute or so at most. Takes about 15 - 20 minutes to launch them, half hour to fly to target as the other side's party favors pass in return and just enough to basically level each other's society and government fatally, while leaving the population to scrape things together to get back to third world living standards. So yeah, nobody's about to essentially do that to themselves.
But, it sure is a sign that Russia is losing badly. Otherwise, they'd not be nuclear saber rattling and going to the trouble of such massive PR propaganda campaigns, which are also expensive and they're already insanely beyond over budget in their war efforts.
The term for any Russian victory now is Pyrrhic victory, one more like it would destroy them. Pyrrhus won the battle, but lost his army in doing so, ending the war.
Pyrrhus was later wounded in battle, then struck in the head by a tile thrown by an angry woman, which killed him at the age of 46. Life expectancy for his cohort typically being around 30 years beyond...
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