• paperazzi@lemmy.world
    49·
    12 days ago

    He’s been itching to nuke something since his first term. Hurricanes, he suggested at one point. And Americans voted him into office twice. Fucking morons.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
    32·
    12 days ago

    Can someone just tell him no one else has nuclear fusion power stations yet but (china|EU|Russia) are close and how much money it would make.

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    30·
    12 days ago

    Ah, the “I had no choice!” argument for scaling up world tension. Yeah, we’ve never heard that one before. Hitler also “had no choice” but to invade Sudetenland, Austria and Poland.

    The “we had no choice” argument is always used to take the victim role as an excuse to justify anything you like. Whether it is joining wars because they sank your illegal weapons shipment hidden in an ocean liner, invading a country because you made it look like they sank your ship, invade a country because a few terrorists attacked your country, invade a country because you claim there might be weapons of mass destruction, send troops and chemical weapons to a dictatorial regime because the freedom fighters threaten your overseas naval base, invade a country for denazification, commit ethnic cleansing, genocide and other horrible war crimes because some terrorist extremists attacked your country after years and years of oppression and apartheid, etc etc etc. There are so many examples in history where this tactic has been used. The entire cold war thrived on this bullshit argument “look at them, I have no choice”.

    “I’m going to do something bad, so I find a way to justify it.”

    • every dictator, agressor, war criminal in history.
      • D_C@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        12 days ago

        It’s supposed to say alleged, now it’s censored to say aged.

        I think it’s a good play on words, tbh, as the alleged part is mostly used to legally cover what is widely known. An innocent person wouldn’t cover up the Epstein list as voraciously as he has.
        And he is very very old, therefore aged.

        • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
          2·
          11 days ago

          supposed to say alleged, now it’s censored to say aged

          Thanks! And “No ██king” does the same. Kinda funny, kinda clever.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    12 days ago

    One can never be sure what President Brain Worms is talking about but I’m pretty sure Obama started a ten year plan to modernize our nuclear forces early in his presidency.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    21·
    12 days ago

    This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

    It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

    …And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.

    But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
      5·
      12 days ago

      Trumplethinskin is too stupid to understand any of that . He desperately wants to to be the one to trigger a spectacular overreaction and turn another country into glass.

      #smallcarrotproblems

    • nekbardrun@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      Good time to remind that, in all History, only one country used nuclear bombs in a war.

      Twice!

      For “Research Purposes” ™

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    19·
    12 days ago

    And who, exactly, is going to get paid to do that? Last I saw 75% of them were furloughed at the moment.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      7·
      12 days ago

      Don’t worry, there will be a company popping up tied to some Republicunts who’ll do the testing for “cheap”.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        4·
        12 days ago

        doG help us all:

        the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.

        One of the companies anticipated to receive shipments of the fissile isotope from the DOE is Oklo, a “nuclear startup” backed — and formerly chaired — by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

        He really is hellbent on literally destroying America for money.

        However

        As the FT reports, we won’t know for certain until December 31

        So I hope this makes the rounds and steps are taken against it soon.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      I’m NGL If my job put in the position to be the one testing nukes it would be very tempting to do so even without pay just on a ‘oonga boonga big boom’ basis. Unfortunately I’m educated enough to know how awful that is for the environment, also not a nuclear test engineer or whatever the job title even is.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      2·
      12 days ago

      Yes but in what condition? AFAIK most of them are from Cold War times and the Kremlin deliberately suppresses any information on the state they’re in.

      So, America can destroy earth 100-fold, but Russia can destroy it 110-fold - at least until one of them backfires.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
      9·
      12 days ago

      Orange Don wants to make sure he can launch them the next time someone calls him names, without anyone being able to stop him

  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    11·
    12 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.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 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.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      2·
      12 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.

    • Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
      1·
      12 days ago

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

      • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 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.

          • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            9 days 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.