• Tetragrade@leminal.space
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    2 hours ago

    I heard they’re developing a new Shahed bomb that can blow up a church and rebuild it into a mosque.

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    WMD trucks was it one of the previous times the US set the region on fire, wasn’t it?

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    Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it’s actually funny.

    Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going “Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this.”

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      2 hours ago

      I mean, people do strap on conventional explosive vests and set them off in crowds. That is not the absurd part.

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    7 hours ago

    American civilians killed by Iran made nuclear slingshots and slippping on nuclear banana peels.

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    8 hours ago

    “Vance says” is like when my 3-year-old blames everything on the cat. Who ate all the nesquik Jonathan, was it the cat, or was it you with nesquik on your face? Who can say.

    • Kaito@lemmy.world
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      8 minutes ago

      “Please make nukes pretty please? We can’t explain this war to our people without you making nukes…”

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        5 hours ago

        If the US is saying Iran could do it, the US has probably already figured it out. Fallout is getting to be too damn real

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          Correction an Appalachian born yuppie with no technical knowledge claims they could do it. Unless Vance got bored and went through data on the nuclear arsenal then it’s probably a safe bet that he’s making shit up. Tactical nukes are a thing and backpack nukes are somewhat possible by an army definition of portable, but a nuclear suicide vest is just fucking asanine. Frankly speaking given the general purge of everyone with competency and the general ratfucked nature of these waste of biological matter I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the nuclear arsenal isn’t even fully understood anymore because everyone competent was fired or fucked off.

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          7 hours ago

          It’s from the 50s but as I understand it nukes as we have them now require certain physical properties and dimensions to work with that being about as small as you can get. Anything smaller and the reaction either fizzles out, you get a dirty bomb, or the explosive yield is worse than traditional explosives of equivalent size. To make it any smaller you’d need a fusion bomb most likely.

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              Probably, though as I noted the problem with such small nuclear arms isn’t their capacity but moreso their efficiency and consistency. A fusion bomb could help to amplify at least the capacity for destruction, assuming it can’t be circumnavigated through some technological fuckery, frankly I don’t think anyone can comment on fusion bombs with any degree of accuracy given that we haven’t figured out sustained fusion reactors.

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      10 hours ago

      Right? Nuclear arms are supposed to be on arm sleeves, not vests.