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Silent3

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3. The article acknowledges the concern that I had, which is that the tactical nukes...

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Original post)

Wed Jul 19, 2023, 09:40 AM

Jul 2023

...are much more likely to be functional.

While the article says, "Fortunately, these are not 'civilization-ending' devices", that's not much comfort. Tactical nukes would still be devastating and demoralizing. Set off just one in the middle of Kyiv and that's a lot a dead Ukrainians and a lot of damage. Such devices can be smuggled into Ukraine quite easily and set off by surprise.

Even if Putin is crazy enough to resort to nukes, and they are reliably functional, I never imagined he'd go straight to a giant thermonuclear devices anyway.

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Russia's Nukes Probably Don't Work - Here's Why [View all] Clash City Rocker Jul 2023 OP

It just takes one of their thousands to work. TheBlackAdder Jul 2023 #1

Yes. Sure no one wants to really ever ever find out if even one of thousands...works to mass murder. Alexander Of Assyria Jul 2023 #9

While a number of their ICBM's may be down, and I don't know if that's true or not, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #2

I don't think the hair-trigger world-ending all-out exchange of nukes... Silent3 Jul 2023 #6

Maybe, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #8

You forgot carp. niyad Jul 2023 #21

Oh yeah, MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2023 #24

The article acknowledges the concern that I had, which is that the tactical nukes... Silent3 Jul 2023 #3

This is what worries me about this conflict as well. GhostHunter22 Jul 2023 #13

The big Hydrogen ones would likely fail IbogaProject Jul 2023 #4

Almost all modern nukes need tritium sir pball Jul 2023 #15

To split hairs, radioactive tritium is "heavy heavy hydrogen" ... eppur_se_muova Jul 2023 #19

I was pointing people to the main issue IbogaProject Jul 2023 #22

I would reverse this question sarisataka Jul 2023 #5

Patriot and THAAD are mainly aimed at short and intermediate range ballistics missiles aren't they? GregariousGroundhog Jul 2023 #10

Yes, that is what they are designed for sarisataka Jul 2023 #11

We do not have the right orthoclad Jul 2023 #7

Read that the last time Russian nuke sites were checked they were rusty. Article is from 1997. sarcasmo Jul 2023 #12

Every word of this article strikes me as the absolute truth. Aristus Jul 2023 #14

Exactly, and the article was from 97, so imagine the wear over 26 years. sarcasmo Jul 2023 #18

They still use Windows 95. lpbk2713 Jul 2023 #16

That would be modern sarisataka Jul 2023 #17

That article fails to take one important thing into consideration ... priority. Angleae Jul 2023 #20

If even one functions properly, that's a disaster. roxybear Jul 2023 #23