Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map
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Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map
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#2>Because you invaded a country for no reason (like we did to Iraq), (except the one you invaded is at your borders and we put our guy at its head a couple years ago, and the one we invaded is half a planet from us), we will bring forth the apocalypse.
Humans are crazy, seeing how we're speaking about a nuclear war now vs how people spoke about it in the 60s, it's like a mass psychosis, we don't care anymore, or maybe we're too dumb to think about the horrors of something before living through it.
Now bring in the downvotes because somehow what I said hurts your (allegiance to the flag since elementary school) sense of nat.. patriotism.
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#4This site doesn't seem great - their methodology doesn't explain how they reach the conclusions they did. For example, does radioactive fallout scale linearly with bomb size? I have no idea! But given that most weapons are hydrogen-bombs now, that doesn't seem intuitively obvious that it does - the amount of radioactive material per warhead plateaus while yield goes up and up.
Which is to say, it seems big on the "panic and horror" and low on actual information. I have no idea how to follow whether their conclusions seem reasonable or not.
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#5>Because you invaded a country for no reason (like we did to Iraq), (except the one you invaded is at your borders and we put our guy at its head a couple years ago, and the one we invaded is half a planet from us), we will bring forth the apocalypse. Humans are crazy, seeing how we're speaking about a nuclear war now vs how people spoke about it in the 60s, it's like a mass psychosis, we don't care anymore, or maybe…
mostly agreeable except for the premise that Ukrainians should be a passive lot that either should’ve resigned themselves to remain an impoverished, looted, vassal state like Belarus or Russia itself, or are acting as a pawn in US geopolitical hands. They — seemingly — aspire to more than that.
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#6"it probably doesn’t look dramatically different"
Living in East Germany I hope it does!
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#7>Because you invaded a country for no reason (like we did to Iraq), (except the one you invaded is at your borders and we put our guy at its head a couple years ago, and the one we invaded is half a planet from us), we will bring forth the apocalypse. Humans are crazy, seeing how we're speaking about a nuclear war now vs how people spoke about it in the 60s, it's like a mass psychosis, we don't care anymore, or maybe…
I wonder if it’s the Internet’s fault. Maybe people have become so jaded by Online discourse and carry it over into IRL?
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#8"it probably doesn’t look dramatically different" Living in East Germany I hope it does!
"West Germany Best Germany" -- some military staffer while planning Eastern Europe's nuclear obliteration
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#9>Because you invaded a country for no reason (like we did to Iraq), (except the one you invaded is at your borders and we put our guy at its head a couple years ago, and the one we invaded is half a planet from us), we will bring forth the apocalypse. Humans are crazy, seeing how we're speaking about a nuclear war now vs how people spoke about it in the 60s, it's like a mass psychosis, we don't care anymore, or maybe…
> we will bring forth the apocalypse.
This word is often misused. Are you still worried about someone bringing it forth, now that you know what it means?
apocalypse (n.)
late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo "off, away from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save"). The Christian end-of-the-world story is part of the revelation in John of Patmos' book "Apokalypsis" (a title rendered into English as pocalipsis c. 1050, "Apocalypse" c. 1230, and "Revelation" by Wyclif c. 1380).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/apocalypse#etymonline_v_1547...
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#10The theory of deterrence is kind of like the idea that the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a gun.