• DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

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      3 days ago

      100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth

      It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn’t actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.

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      3 days ago

      True, but don’t tell them that, it’s better if they waste money on useless nuclears than genocide technology.

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      3 days ago

      If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

      Ohh we got you fam.

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      3 days ago

      Do you mean 100 all at once? Because we’ve been averaging 26.5 per year for the last 80 years

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        2 days ago

        Hmm I don’t think so. If it is true those are over the ocean or something. I mean an attack with 100 missiles would destroy nearly any country. Russia is especially vulnerable because they only have a couple of cities with any population in them. Modern nukes are 50-75x the yield of the ones they dropped on Japan. There are all kinds of externalities. They can poison the ground water for generations. They can kill any life feeding in the area. They can cause fallout which is like a radioactive dust cloud covering everything. It isn’t good.

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            10 hours ago

            You are misunderstanding what I wrote. I’m aware that setting nukes off over the ocean won’t end all life in earth. I never said that tho and you might have me mixed up with someone else. I said that it will end life as we know it and it absolutely will, setting nukes off over cities will cause radioactive fallout, as well as destroy power grids, the internet infrastructure. It will poison the water. You have to also remember that it will short out the hundreds of nuclear power plants potentially leading to meltdowns, unless they are fail safe designs. I don’t think most plants are designed to withstand an emp. Either way a nuclear war would likely mean a reset for human civilization. If you don’t believe this then I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise.