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SonofDonald

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3. And don't forget those "Suitcase" nukes
Wed Apr 26, 2017, 05:07 PM
Apr 2017

I read a book called "Area 51" written by a woman who really got into her research, in it she stated the USA has produced 70,000 nuclear ( which may include thermonuclear ) weapons in over 60 varieties.

45 may just think he can throw a "small one" at NK's forces and not cause any more damage than necessary.

That would tend to mess up their battery's of launchers but in the end it's still a nuclear weapon and should NEVER be used.

People may tend to think any nuclear bomb is a hugely destructive weapon but they do have small ones in our arsenal and 45 may think "if I just used a teeny tiny one it's be ok", but it's not, and never will be.

I recommend the above mentioned "Area 51" I can't remember the authors name as I loaned out the book.

And "Dark Sun" about the development of the Hydrogen bomb, author Richard Rhodes.

My Father watched the first two hydrogen bombs being detonated and a couple of atom bombs in the early fifties in the South Pacific while in the US Navy, his thoughts on them were " I hope they never use one, I really do, because if they do the world may just come to an end".

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