Yea, but the way we are meddling, China and Putin may decide to “pool their resources”. But seeing as we are the world’s superpower, they would not dare.
“Yea, but the way we are meddling, China and Putin may decide to “pool their resources”. But seeing as we are the world’s superpower, they would not dare.”
Great point! And thanks for reminding me - I had forgotten that we had declared ourselves as the world’s ONLY superpower 30+ years ago, and therefore we are INVINCIBLE and even Russian/Chinese nukes will disintegrate before hitting US cities.
So, no need to worry - we’re safe! We’re so safe that we can replace our soldiers with Drag Queens!
“China and Putin may decide to “pool their resources”
So what? It will take less than 100 of the devices the world currently uses to poison mankind into history. How much is enough?
In 1945, the Los Alamos scientist, Alex Wellerstein, concluded it would only take between 10 and 100 “Super” bombs to end the world. The apocalypse brought on by these 10-100 super bombs wouldn’t be all fire and brimstone. The scientists posited that “the most world-wide destruction could come from radioactive poisons” unleashed on the Earth’s atmosphere by the bombs’ weaponized uranium. Radiation exposure leads to skyrocketing rates of cancer, birth defects, and genetic anomalies. “Atmospheric poisoning is basically making it so that the background level of radioactivity would be greatly increased, to the point that it would interfere with human life (e.g. cancers and birth defects) and reproduction (e.g. genetic anomalies),” says Wellerstein. Wellerstein says that this fear of widespread nuclear fallout was hardly irrational and that concerns over the atmospheric effects of nuclear detonations were “one of the reasons that we stopped testing nuclear weapons aboveground in 1963, as part of the Limited Test Ban Treaty.” An example is the test grounds in Utah.
It is noted that there were a number of cast and crew on the movie The Conqueror that died of cancer related issues:
“Of the 220 film crew members, 91 (comprising 41% of the crew) developed cancer during their lifetime, while 46 (or 21%) died from it. When this was learned, many suspected that filming in Utah and surrounding locations, near nuclear test sites, was to blame. Although the number of cancer cases among the cast and crew is in line with the average for adults in the US at the time, the perception of a link between the film’s location and subsequent illness remains, not least because many of those involved in the film developed cancer at a younger age than average.”
Noted stars who died in this situation were Dick Powell (dir), John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and John Hoyt. Other people from the film or extended visitors that had cancer related problems were Lee Van Cleef and several of Wayne and Hayward’s relatives who visited the set also had cancer scares. Michael Wayne developed skin cancer, his brother Patrick had a benign tumor removed from his breast, and Hayward’s son, Tim Barker, had a benign tumor removed from his mouth. The filming location was downwind from the United States government’s Nevada National Security Site and received the brunt of nuclear fallout from testing active in this period. And this was in what they thought was a controlled atmosphere and not a full blown weapon intending destruction or death.
350 a good start in development? How much is enough? Seems strange the government would be up in arms about ownership in guns by the public, but are in control of weapons that can destroy humanity if a couple of nuts get to them.
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