War in Ukraine

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WBO said:
Just telling you what the experts taught us.
Gross part was when they showed us the progression pictures of a Los Alamos scientist dying of radiation. Sttrange story that was actually portrayed in a movie with John Cusack. It seems a scientist was fooling around with some blocks or discs of refined uranium. He was using them like building blocks and stacking them up in different shapes when he inadvertently stacks them in a way where he created a nuclear pile and it trigged an actual reaction. There was a visible flash and he immediately knocks the pile apart with his arm. Massive dose of radiation with the arm getting the worse part.

The pictures show it starting in the arm and going up. Poor guy, they had no idea what to do for him.

Wouldn't mind slipping a little radioactive material in Putin's borsch.
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A lot of the labs we had in Nuclear Engineering at UT were done at Oak Ridge. By far the most interesting one was the one where a slug of fissile material is inserted inside a donut of fissile material, so that it would be supercritical assembly waiting for a neutron from a source. It was used to simulate a bomb blast on a very very small scale for shielding and to test exposure to biological materials - in our case plant seeds. The guys who ran the lab said the slug was supposed to be ejected with a blast of air, but they weren't sure if it was really that or the rapid energy burst. Another part of the same facility had to do with approach to criticality and how far apart radioactive substances had to be kept to be safe.
 
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ABINGDON VOL FAN said:
I don’t think it would long term. Saw a similar video about the nuclear winters which would occur for a few years after a full scale attack.
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Remember the nuclear winter theory came along before global warming. So we're all going to die either way ... assuming Cokes and other foods don't get us first. Can't wait to hear the new theory about what's harmful next.
 
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I can tell you guys right now, if there's a nuke strike against the US, I'm hauling @$$ to the nearest target detonation point. I want to be vaporized on the first strike, instantaneously. No way do I want to wander around trying to survive a nuclear winter, radiated half to death already with skin and tissue melting off my bones.
 
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Vol737 said:
I can tell you guys right now, if there's a nuke strike against the US, I'm hauling @$$ to the nearest target detonation point. I want to be vaporized on the first strike, instantaneously. No way do I want to wander around trying to survive a nuclear winter, radiated half to death already with skin and tissue melting off my bones.
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Pretty sure Thyroid cancer would be the biggest issue with radiation fallout. Potassium Iodide pills will help with that in prevention of the thyroid taking up radiation. I have some somewhere, may need to dig those out.
 
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Vol737 said:
I can tell you guys right now, if there's a nuke strike against the US, I'm hauling @$$ to the nearest target detonation point. I want to be vaporized on the first strike, instantaneously. No way do I want to wander around trying to survive a nuclear winter, radiated half to death already with skin and tissue melting off my bones.
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One place that should be a mandatory stop for anybody involved with nuclear warfare should be the Peace Park and museum in Hiroshima. You won't leave the same as you entered. I've been a few times and always left shaken. One diorama displayed exactly what you describe. One Japanese engineer that I worked a lot with lived in Kure (10-15 miles outside Hiroshima); he told me about the morning he went back in his house and told his mother there was another sun in the sky - another thing you never forget.

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Rasputin_Vol said:
In Kharkiv. Was in Kiev a few days ago, and had some Zelensky goons knocking on his door so he's in hiding.

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You believe Russian state TV and those that appear on it? Yet you criticize others for buying into propoganda? Seriously man, come on!

Those that don't want the truth to come out suppress dissenting voices..... Funny that's what Russia is doing right now.
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
You guys think I'm lying, but during the presidential election I was on twitter in contact with all the presidents and political writers, and even top news broad casters. I knew i was getting attention and would be checked. I didn't care because I was having civil discourse and had never done anything wrong. Just an average American discussing politics. So I get into a discussion about Russia and Putin with someone high ranking (not going to divulge), and suddenly twit goes a little wierd, and I can tell someone is snooping around. I knew I'd be checked, no big deal. Next thing I know I can wright like 500 word tweets if I want, and I'm like... ok this is getting weird. Then I get this message, and it was obviously russian. "Why don't you tell me more about your views on russia and putin."

I told him strait back "I am not stupid and I know who you are."

Then I hit delete.
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Its odd. I can read some of dubbaD's posts and think, hmmm... "that is interesting" and then there are these. It is almost as if the double he speaks of are his personalities. Maybe 2D is actually Zaphod.
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lawgator1 said:
If Putin detonated a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, do we just have to take him out?
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Yes. Putin needs to understand that nukes - any nukes - are a hard red line. Use of which will not only result in NATO and all of the west entering the war, but also immediate retaliatory nuclear strikes on Russia, in kind.
 
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KB5252 said:
You believe Russian state TV and those that appear on it? Yet you criticize others for buying into propoganda? Seriously man, come on!

Those that don't want the truth to come out suppress dissenting voices..... Funny that's what Russia is doing right now.
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So you agree that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are censoring dissenting voices because they don't like the truth coming out. Right?
 
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If the Hague declares Putin a "war criminal", are we good to go with the gofundme bounty on his head?

Asking for a friend.
 
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Chief of the General Staff of Belarus has resigned, refusing to fight Ukraine.

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Dear Viktor Gennadievich!

in pursuance of your order regarding the formation of shock battalion groups, I have to report the following: due to the massive refusal to take part in the hostilities of the personnel of the military units that were supposed to be involved in staffing the above battalion groups, the Armed Forces of Belarus are not able to staff a single battalion group. Conducting explanatory work with the commanders of military units did not produce results. I have the courage to assume that the replacement of the commanders of these military units, who were unable to organize the formation of groups on the ground, will not give us the result we need. In view of the above, I ask for your decision regarding the acceptance of my resignation.

Chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus Major General

Gulevich V.V.
 
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