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[Scouse]

So, surprised that this "uniquely stupid weapon" isn't making bigger headlines:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-researchers-find-probable-launch-site-russias-new-nuclear-powered-missile-2024-09-02/

A nuclear powered nuclear-tipped cruise missile.

Basically, the "flying chernobyl" moniker is correct. And although I suspect we could shoot it down - if we did we'd be spreading an unshielded nuclear reactor meltdown over a vast area.

Putin has indicated his willingness to use nukes, he's gone ahead and built a weapon that will spread radiation just from firing it - which will contaminate Russia first - killing Russians (which he's happy to do) but also every country it passes over on it's way to it's target or eventual shooting down nuclear disaster.

And people think I'm being stupid when I say the existence of nuclear reactors is a danger to the public in times of war. If we go to war it's inevitable that they will be targets.

So then. Thoughts?

 

[Deebs]

So, surprised that this "uniquely stupid weapon" isn't making bigger headlines:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-researchers-find-probable-launch-site-russias-new-nuclear-powered-missile-2024-09-02/

A nuclear powered nuclear-tipped cruise missile.

Basically, the "flying chernobyl" moniker is correct. And although I suspect we could shoot it down - if we did we'd be spreading an unshielded nuclear reactor meltdown over a vast area.

Putin has indicated his willingness to use nukes, he's gone ahead and built a weapon that will spread radiation just from firing it - which will contaminate Russia first - killing Russians (which he's happy to do) but also every country it passes over on it's way to it's target or eventual shooting down nuclear disaster.

And people think I'm being stupid when I say the existence of nuclear reactors is a danger to the public in times of war. If we go to war it's inevitable that they will be targets.

So then. Thoughts?

Last time I checked history has shown that war is a danger to the public. Doesn't matter the equipment used to wage war.

Oh silly me, let me get the list of countries that have used nuclear weapons in war, I am sure it will have Russia, China or even North Korea.

Damn got that wrong, the only country in history to have used nuclear weapons in war is USA.

 

[Scouse]

Last time I checked history has shown that war is a danger to the public. Doesn't matter the equipment used to wage war.

I beg to differ.

We use multiple nukes in a global war we're all fucked. Check.

Russia fires a handful of these and nobody bothers retaliating - we just shoot em down? We're sliding-scale fucked.

It's a disastrous weapon and the fact we've made one tells us more about how humanity works than should make anyone comfortable.

 

[Deebs]

I beg to differ.

We use multiple nukes in a global war we're all fucked.

Russia fires a handful of these and nobody bothers retaliating - we just shoot em down? We're sliding-scale fucked.

It's a disastrous weapon and the fact we've made one tells us more about how humanity works than should make anyone comfortable.

Right, so all wars before WW2 didn't contain nukes, yet millions have died in the wars regardless of the equipment used to kill, the only common factor in every fucking war ever is something called humankind. We are the most dangerous weapon.

 

[Scouse]

Right, so all wars before WW2 didn't contain nukes, yet millions have died in the wars regardless of the equipment used to kill, the only common factor in every fucking war ever is something called humankind. We are the most dangerous weapon.

Yes. But the nature of war fundamentally changed when nukes became available.

Millions dead is now a rounding error.

This new Russian missile is, again, something new. A horrible perversion of a nuke.