• Liar™️@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This would be hilarious if there wasn’t a chance of nukes ending up in even worse hands. What a shit show, hopefully this gives Ukraine some breathing room to go even harder on the offensive.

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      1 year ago

      I sure hope those nukes dont fall into the hands of a belligerent nation invading their neighbors and threatening to nuke anyone who gets in their way, that’d be quite an escalation!

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      1 year ago

      The thing people don’t realize about nukes is that you don’t just build them once and bob’s your uncle, you have a nuclear bomb forever. The material starts to decay and the potency of the bomb is then greatly diminished. Nukes must be maintained to keep them operational. In fact, I know westinghouse would buy old unspent weapon’s grade material, and then refine/dilute the material to convert into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. Given the war, I don’t know if that’s still the case.

      But yeah, nukes take a lot of effort and resources to maintain as far as I understand it.