#Nukes

Alex Wellerstein

My hot take on why every time something chemical explodes people say "IT'S GOTTA BE A NUKE" is that a) most people do really believe that mushroom-like clouds are unique

Folks, I don't think the "start testing nukes" crap is coming from Trump. I know we love the explanation that he wants to play with "the nuclear," but always remember

"Israeli Delilah missile carrying 6 kiloton (6000 tons of TNT equivalent) nuclear missile (unretouched photo via VT Damascus) Tineye says this is a unique image and doesn’t appear anywhere on

A few thoughts on this very interesting @ForeignAffairs piece on #Ukraine and the history of post-Cold War relations between the West and Russia. 1/https://twitter.com/e_sarotte/status/1197905426521526273 As noted in the piece, SecState

harper my beloved

why ranboo stole the nukes, a thread. /dsmp part 1. motive ranboo has a pretty obvious motive, and that's dream. the name is literally "project dreamcatcher" and it was built

something about snowchester tubbo rocks my shit. hes just so GOOD. mf is an emotionally defiant, traumatized ex-president and child veteran running an entire commune in the middle of a

/dsmp /rpwhy i think c!tubbo is next to diea ; // suicideNUKES- the nukes have a dead mans switch or a "suicide" switch which means they can be activated directly

Τιμόθεος 4 Change

So people weigh in.The way I see it we have a cluster of related problems and money is probably at the center of most of them.Where do we start? Nukes

Palladium Magazine

You can't separate civilian and military nuclear power. This drives fear of nuclear. We need to come to terms with this, and build a positive vision of a green nuclear-powered

given these regional coronavirus pacts, it's probably bad that I think the balkanization of the US is both inevitable and probably A Good Thing, right? all the nukes are in

CBI_PTO_History

There are "historians" on either side of the debate, which is always what I find so insulting about this framing. It implies that it's brilliant, REAL historians against the stupid,

What is the plausibility of a coalition of 10 Muslim-majority nations becoming the final Beast empire? Could such a confederation, centered around Turkey, realistically dominate the ME and threaten the

The Cold War never ended every nation just ended up having nukes powerful enough to destroy the whole planet they just swept the static under the rug, turned us all

A thread:A nation developed nuclear weapons, and chose to use them to achieve strategic goals, while recognizing the other negative effects of them. Despite their best efforts, an opposing nation

The 'job ads' from the Wuhan Virology Lab are enlightening. Dissapeared (most likely dead) bat researcher (& assistants?) contaminated with biological material - the start of all this.Conspiracy or Cock-up?More

Kelsey D. Atherton

"Contrary to a common misconception, the shape of the mushroom cloud does not depend on the nuclear or thermonuclear component; as you note, a massive detonation of chemical explosives would