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Honestly, I support nuclear weapons. If we get rid of them out of fear of our inability not to blow ourselves off this planet then maybe we deserve to go extict. The advantages of having them outweighs the disadvantages within my mind. Some examples of such advantages is planetary defense against aliens and asteroids! It would be like not grabbing the bfg on doom because you're afraid of it. We're not going to see greatness as a species or even have the ability to survive very long if we're not to use logic and sense and have the ability to use the elements of our universe to our advantage.

And besides it keeps the world wars to a minimum was no big countries that have them will attack each other. How many decades after getting rid of nuclear weapons will it take before we get into a massive war once again???
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Also consider this, are we as a species really going to f*ck with anti-matter, quarks and controlling stars if we're too chicken shit and out of control to have nukes? lol :lol: Forget space travel outside of the solar system if this is the case.
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Zelenskyy Says World Should 'Be Ready' for Putin to Use Nuclear Weapons
by Kenny Stancil
April 154, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... ar-weapons

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(Common Dreams) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday warned that the world should prepare for Russia to use nuclear weapons as part of its ongoing assault.

When asked if he is worried that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use a so-called tactical nuclear weapon on Ukraine, Zelenskyy told CNN's Jake Tapper: "Not only me—I think all of the world, all the countries, have to be worried because... it can be not real information, but it can be truth."

The Kremlin could use nuclear or chemical weapons, argued Zelenskyy, because it doesn't value the lives of would-be victims. "We should... not be afraid but be ready," the besieged president said in English from his office in Kyiv. "But that is not a question for Ukraine, not only for Ukraine but for all the world, I think."

Zelenskyy's comments came one day after CIA Director Bill Burns said that U.S. officials are closely monitoring the possibility of a cornered Putin launching nuclear weapons.

"Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they've faced so far militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons," Burns said in a public address at Georgia Tech, though he emphasized that the U.S. has not yet seen evidence of Moscow preparing to take such a step.
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weatheriscool wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:57 pm Also consider this, are we as a species really going to f*ck with anti-matter, quarks and controlling stars if we're too chicken shit and out of control to have nukes? lol :lol: Forget space travel outside of the solar system if this is the case.
Well, by then, we'll have tons of planets, O'Neill cylinders and Dyson spheres to fall back on should we detonate something in a speculator fashion, intentionally or accidentally.

We don't have that luxury at the moment since, well, we've got only one puny planet with a paper-thin breathable atmosphere to survive on.
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Russia Claims to Have Successfully Test-Launched Sarmat ICBM from Plesetsk Spaceport
April 20, 2022

https://tass.com/defense/1440631?utm_so ... edrive.com

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(Tass) MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Russia successfully conducted the first launch of a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

"Today, at 15:12 Moscow time, a Sarmat silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully test-launched from a silo launcher at the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region," the ministry said in a statement.

"The launch’s tasks were achieved in full. The designated characteristics were confirmed at all the stages of its flight. The practice warheads arrived at the designated area at the Kura proving ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula," the ministry added.

During the first flight tests of the cutting-edge heavy missile with the MIRVed (multiple independently targetable vehicle) warheads, the correctness of its design, structural and technical solutions was assessed. The breakthrough Sarmat ICBM will enter service with Russia’s Strategic Missile Force after the program of its tests is over. The Sarmat is due to replace the Voyevoda ICBM.

"Work is underway at the Uzhursky missile formation to prepare a forward missile regiment for its rearmament with the new missile system," the ministry said.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/r ... py-mission

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(The Drive) In a highly unusual move, a pair of U.S. Air Force RC-135S Cobra Ball intelligence-gathering aircraft flew together toward the east coast of Russia today. The reason for the two-aircraft mission was the first full-scale test launch of Russia’s new RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), one of the six ‘super weapons’ that were showcased by President Vladimir Putin back in March 2018.

The two RC-135S aircraft, serial numbers 62-4128 and 61-2663, launched from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska earlier today and apparently flew in formation toward Russia’s Far East coast. Online flight-tracking software shows the aircraft close to St. Matthew Island, a remote, uninhabited outpost of Alaska in the Bering Sea.

The two Cobra Balls were observing the Sarmat’s multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) test warheads as they returned to Earth on a designated area at the Kura Proving Ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East.

Typically, the Cobra Ball would take up station closer to the Russian coast, with an orbit area off Klyuchi, also on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It’s possible, therefore, that the two RC-135S aircraft today were ‘caught short,’ with reentry occurring before the jets reached their planned station.

The War Zone spoke to Robert S. Hopkins, III, an independent scholar and aviation historian, and a former Air Force pilot with experience flying 17 different C-135 sub-variants, including both the RC-135S Cobra Ball aircraft involved today, to get a better understanding of the rarity of this mission. (See linked article for further discussion).
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Russia warns it will deploy ‘Satan 2’ nuclear missiles ‘capable of hitting UK’ by the autumn

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Russia has announced it will deploy its recently tested “Satan II” missile by the autumn, as tensions between Moscow and the west mount amid the Ukraine war.

The Kremlin announced the first test launch of its new, nuclear-capable Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system on Wednesday, with experts warning the warhead could target the UK as well as Europe and the US.

The Sarmat is capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, and of striking targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe.

This week's test, after years of delays due to funding and technical issues, marks a show of strength by Russia at a time when the war in Ukraine has sent tensions with the United States and its allies soaring to their highest levels since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

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Mr Putin claimed the missile, which hit its targets after traveling roughly 6,000km (3,700 miles), is virtually impossible to defend against with current technology.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 64110.html


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North Korea: Kim Jong-un vows to step up nuclear weapons programme

By Zubaidah Abdul Jalil & Frances Mao
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a defiant speech at a military parade on Monday night, vowing to ramp up the country's nuclear arsenal.

The parade, to mark the armed forces' founding anniversary, also displayed banned intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

In March, North Korea tested its largest-known ICBM for the first time since 2017.

It sparked wide condemnation from the international community.

The US also imposed several sanctions on the country after the test. ICBMs, designed for nuclear arms delivery, extend North Korea's strike range as far as the US mainland.

The parade also featured submarine-launched ballistic missiles in addition to hypersonic missiles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61225675


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Just when you thought 2022 couldn't get any crazier.

Oh, and thanks a lot Trump.

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White House says Iran is ‘a few weeks or less’ from bomb breakout

Today, 2:54 am

The US said Tuesday that Iran’s nuclear breakout time was down to weeks, and blamed the previous administration, as negotiations between Tehran and world powers continued to stall.

“Their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal, to just a few weeks or less,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at a press conference, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Iran’s breakout time was “down to a matter of weeks.”

The Biden administration has issued similar warnings about Iran’s nuclear breakout time in the past.

The breakout period refers to the amount of time it will take Iran to amass enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, if it chooses to do so.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-hou ... -breakout/
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Will Putin Go Nuclear? A Timeline of Expert Comments
By Susan D’Agostino
April 27, 2022

https://thebulletin.org/2022/04/will-pu ... st-heading

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(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) “The risk of global nuclear war has practically disappeared,” Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, said in his 1991 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, even though Russia and the United States retained their massive nuclear arsenals.

Three decades later, nine countries are members of the nuclear club. Even so, many were reassured last summer when Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden during a Geneva summit reiterated the Gorbachev-Regan statement that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

But ever since Russia’s late-February invasion of Ukraine, political leaders, nuclear arms control experts, and world citizens have tried to answer some version of the question: Will Putin use nuclear weapons in his war in Ukraine?

The utterances by individuals of note listed below might have been responses to this question. These statements, arranged chronologically, offer a still-unfolding existential narrative on whether nuclear war may or may not be imminent. (See link above the quote box for referenced timeline)
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