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Post by DKTrav88 on Sept 1, 2018 6:40:37 GMT
The existential threat of nuclear war is no longer a Cold War memory. With nine countries armed with around 15,000 atomic bombs up to 53 times stronger than those dropped in the Second World War, the stakes are arguably higher.
Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
While most people know about the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fewer are aware that an additional 2,000 atomic bombs were detonated after World War II and tested on hundreds of thousands of young soldiers to prepare them for nuclear war.
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 1, 2018 7:44:57 GMT
Ok...but like...why do they even exist? They're like a horror movie ready to happen.
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Post by DKTrav88 on Sept 1, 2018 8:53:34 GMT
Ok...but like...why do they even exist? They're like a horror movie ready to happen. I don’t know why they exist. They’re terrifying though, they should all be destroyed. |
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 1, 2018 21:44:31 GMT
But in terms of how it feels like...i think bible says how it feels like too. But that's another topic Shrug
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Post by Διαμονδ on Sept 2, 2018 15:02:48 GMT
Some of the plans of Jewish capitalists and globalists of the mid-20th century! Plans for a nuclear war devised by the US Army in the 1960s considered decimating the Soviet Union and China by destroying their industrial potential and wiping out the bulk of their populations, newly declassified documents show.
A review of the US general nuclear war plan by the Joint Staff in 1964, which was recently published by George Washington University’s National Security Archive project, shows how the Pentagon studied options “to destroy the USSR and China as viable societies.”
The review, conducted two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, devises the destruction of the Soviet Union “as a viable society” by annihilating 70 percent of its industrial floor space during pre-emptive and retaliatory nuclear strikes.
A similar goal is tweaked for China, given its more agrarian-based economy at the time. According to the plan, the US would wipe out 30 major Chinese cities, killing off 30 percent of the nation’s urban population and halving its industrial capabilities. The successful execution of the large-scale nuclear assault would ensure that China “would no longer be a viable nation,” the review reads.
The Joint Staff had proposed to use the “population loss as the primary yardstick for effectiveness in destroying the enemy society with only collateral attention to industrial damage.” This “alarming” idea meant that, as long as urban workers and managers were killed, the actual damage to industrial targets “might not be as important,” the George Washington University researchers said.
The 1964 plan doesn’t specify the anticipated enemy casualty levels, but – as the researchers note – an earlier estimate from 1961 projected that a US attack would kill 71 percent of the residents in major Soviet urban centers and 53 percent of residents in Chinese ones. Likewise, the 1962 estimate predicted the death of 70 million Soviet citizens during a “no-warning US strike” on military and urban-industrial targets.
The Pentagon continues to rely heavily on nuclear deterrence, and – just like in the 1960s – the US nuclear strategy still regards Russian and Chinese military capabilities as main “challenges” faced by Washington. The latest Nuclear Posture Review, adopted in February, outlined “an unprecedented range and mix of threats” emanating from Beijing and Moscow. The document, which mentions Russia 127 times, cites the modernization of the Russian nuclear arsenal as “troubling” for the US.
The existing nuclear strategy also allows the US to conduct nuclear strikes not only in response to enemies’ nuclear attacks, but also in response to “significant non-nuclear strategic attacks” on the US, its allies and partners.
The newest US Nuclear Posture Review was heavily criticized by Russia and China. Moscow denounced the strategy as “confrontational,” while Beijing described the Pentagon’s approach as an example of “Cold-War mentality.”www.rt.com/news/437432-us-declassified-nuclear-plans/Well, comrade Khrushchev promised to show them Kuzkin's mother and they stalled! Still afraid of the Yankees in Washington.
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Post by flow3 on Sept 3, 2018 8:21:27 GMT
Depends how far are you from the place of detonation
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Post by kelly on Sept 15, 2018 16:07:26 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them.
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Post by FireFoxAssassin on Sept 16, 2018 20:52:42 GMT
I don't think a nuclear explosion would feel good...
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Post by EvilSpiriT on Nov 1, 2018 17:33:25 GMT
like seeing the worst nightmares for continuous lifetime.Because of it's perennial effect.
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Post by antrise on Sept 22, 2019 16:13:44 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them. "Your Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud," Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty——all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?"
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, rubbing his hands with glee.
He said, "Oh Mother England, did you light my smile; or did you light
This fire under me?
One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.
And paint you a picture of the queen.
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree -
It's just the nonsense that it seems.
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Post by antrise on Dec 4, 2019 4:08:51 GMT
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Post by antrise on Dec 7, 2019 22:40:56 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them. "Your Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud," Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty——all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?"
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, rubbing his hands with glee.
He said, "Oh Mother England, did you light my smile; or did you light
This fire under me?
One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.
And paint you a picture of the queen.
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree -
It's just the nonsense that it seems.
What does a nuclear bomb explosion look like?
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Post by antrise on Dec 7, 2019 22:43:48 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them. "Your Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud," Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty——all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?"
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, rubbing his hands with glee.
He said, "Oh Mother England, did you light my smile; or did you light
This fire under me?
One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.
And paint you a picture of the queen.
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree -
It's just the nonsense that it seems.
What does a nuclear bomb explosion taste like?
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Post by antrise on Dec 7, 2019 23:03:09 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them. "Your Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud," Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty——all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?"
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, rubbing his hands with glee.
He said, "Oh Mother England, did you light my smile; or did you light
This fire under me?
One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.
And paint you a picture of the queen.
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree -
It's just the nonsense that it seems. What does a nuclear bomb explosion feel like?
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Post by antrise on Dec 7, 2019 23:05:48 GMT
Thanks for share its extremely important that their stories are saved so that future generations can learn from them. "Your Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud," Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty——all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?"
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, rubbing his hands with glee.
He said, "Oh Mother England, did you light my smile; or did you light
This fire under me?
One day I'll be a minstrel in the gallery.
And paint you a picture of the queen.
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree -
It's just the nonsense that it seems.
What does a nuclear bomb explosion sound like?
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