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Vanity: Neil DeGrasse Tyson says Modern tactical nukes don't have radioactive fallout
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1583160916517928960 ^

Posted on 10/25/2022 5:21:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws

(Posted as vanity as not a news story yet. It’s a clip from Bill Maher’s show.)

“There's a reaction to nukes that's a little bit out of proportion to what they really do.”


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To: Lurker
"Mostly to stop half a million Russians at the Fulda Gap."

That was not the plan. I was there. The 11th ACR had that speed bump mission.

81 posted on 10/25/2022 7:15:44 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: TigerClaws

Such a bigshot scientist!

He doesn’t even know how to pronounce “Uranus”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjo0dWtPa2c


82 posted on 10/25/2022 7:16:54 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: cuban leaf
Remember, MacArthur was fired because he wanted to use nukes against North Korea’s armies that would have completely obliterated their armies and won the war.

MacArthur beat the North Koreans. It was the Chinese "volunteers" he wanted to nuke.

83 posted on 10/25/2022 7:20:50 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: TigerClaws

This dude is a class A fool.


84 posted on 10/25/2022 7:22:29 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: HamiltonJay

Maybe Putin’s generals might, but...unless they were in on it...I have a feeling the Russian version of the Secret Service might have something to say about that.


85 posted on 10/25/2022 7:23:11 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: mosaicwolf

“ The 11th ACR had that speed bump mission.”

Thank God that never happened.

L


86 posted on 10/25/2022 7:26:43 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: TigerClaws

Niel LDeGresse Lemay.


87 posted on 10/25/2022 7:42:54 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: TigerClaws

Late to comment, but it’s almost silly to discuss this. None of these US or Russian devices have been tested in realistic conditions since the mid 1960s, have they? And the conclusions this guy is drawing, based on no real data, depend entirely on the quality of old Soviet technology and manufacturing prowess.

Many of them, including ours, are likely to fail. But the Soviet ones that do go off may be dirty as literal Hell.


88 posted on 10/25/2022 7:43:22 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: SeeSharp

You get the gist. 😉


89 posted on 10/25/2022 7:58:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: TigerClaws

Oh great! All this hot war talk and we have a belligerent demented sick puppy as POTUS commanding a Woke Pentagon. What could possibly go wrong?


90 posted on 10/25/2022 8:03:58 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: TigerClaws
“There's a reaction to nukes that's a little bit out of proportion to what they really do.”

Oh good! Then we should use them on the Mexican cartels that traffic drugs and people into our country, the Chinese factories that produce Fentanyl to kill our citizens, the Indian call centers that steal hundreds of millions of dollars each year from our senior citizens, etc... I didn't realize they were so "safe and effective". Let's start using them to protect our citizens.

91 posted on 10/25/2022 8:10:01 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: nitzy

Exactly.

You can rebuild Hiroshima. Look at Detroit after 50 years of Democrat control. Worse than a nuke.


92 posted on 10/25/2022 8:21:41 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Roccus

Or Davy Crockett.


93 posted on 10/25/2022 8:25:06 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: TigerClaws

An air burst does have fallout but not huge. A ground burst is lots of fallout, even with small tactical nukes.


94 posted on 10/25/2022 8:35:52 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: ConservativeInPA; TigerClaws
Tyson is a grifter, not a scientist. He’s right up their with Bill Nye.

He was also instrumental in getting Pluto taken out of the line up.

95 posted on 10/25/2022 8:54:33 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: cuban leaf

I agree, since most of the American public get their nuclear information from The Simpsons.


96 posted on 10/25/2022 9:06:03 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: TigerClaws

So....it’s safer than Covid.


97 posted on 10/25/2022 9:17:11 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: TigerClaws

Don’t H-bombs have fissions triggers? The Tsar Bomba irradiated glaciers on the island where it was exploded.


98 posted on 10/25/2022 9:27:58 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: TigerClaws

Regardless of radiation or Fallout it will guarantee it escalation. Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Archduke Ferdinand was killed with a single bullet. You can see where that led


99 posted on 10/25/2022 9:30:19 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: dangus

Don’t forget Carl Sagan, who also sold nuclear winter in addition to climate change from the Kuwaiti oil fires.


100 posted on 10/25/2022 10:06:26 AM PDT by GunRunner
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