Biden needs to distract us from his failures as president.
Posted on 01/28/2022 11:22:15 PM PST by Enlightened1
Miscalculations and accidents can happen. Look at the commercial jet that was shot down with a Russian supplied missile (lot of debate over whether it was launched by Russian soldiers) when little Green Men invaded the Crimea of Ukraine. Putin laughed about the little green men and claimed for a long time that they were not Russian soldiers (wink, wink).
Don't get me wrong, nuclear war is horrific. However, like Covid, it is not as bad as it is made out to be by the press. The military had a definition for certain levels of radioactivity associated with nuclear bombs. It is called an LD-50-30 does. This mean that a certain radiation exposure will be lethal to 50% of an exposed population within 30 days. More will die after those 30 days are up, but that is the basis of the radiation poisoning measurements.
Pressure waves, heat and other factors can also kill from a nuclear bomb.
So just how bad is “nuclear” radiation. There are a variety of types of radiation from different isotopes in the nuclear chain reaction. Some of them like alpha particles are really easy to mitigate. A coat of paint will stop an alpha particle emitter. Beta particles are a little harder to shield against and gamma are the most difficult because it takes mass. However, “decontamination” can be relatively easy depending on its definition.
The way the media has hyped nuclear radiation, one would think that the two Japanese cities would be unoccupied now. But they became thriving cities within a few years. If a city contaminated by a nuclear blast were hosed down with water to wash much of the loose radioactive matter into a stream or river would be horrible from today's environmental perspective, but that and a coat of paint on most things would make the city pretty livable within a matter of weeks.
Oh, and yes, I once was involved with decontaminating a lab that had a plutonium leak. I have also performed dosage calculations associated with nuclear releases and calculated the theoretical number of deaths associated with them.
Again, Russia is crazy and bad things can happen, Even with that I can sleep at night and know that most of the world would survive limited nuclear war.
They always seem to find a way to up the ante or double down rather than fold.
Ever hear of escalation? If the idiots in DC keep up their warmongering rhetoric and put NATO troops in harms way, anything could happen. Why would Britain sacrifice a million dead over some Austrian arch duke? No one wanted that war either. DC dipsh!fs, traitors, dog waggers and neocon cowboys bumbling around this tinderbox, what could go wrong?
Biden needs to distract us from his failures as president.
It’s not an article. It’s a video, and goes right into it.
That assumes the military leadership is calling the shots, an assumption the evidence for which is wobbly at best imo.
the last two years have exposed the depravity of our government
and yet you replied
What an asinine reply. Evidently posting a few words and spending 20-30 minutes watching some video is an equivalent effort/involvement to you.
Remember the anti-Goldwater "Daisy" commercial?
Or the Carter "Reagan's gonna get us into a nuclear war" TV ads?
Or the "Trump's a madman and will start a nuclear war" tropes?
Or the fake nuclear attack warnings out of Hawaii during President Trumps's 1st term?
The Dems do it and people nod mindlessly and gape open-mouthed while voicing approval of the Democrats' supposed sage wisdom.
Flynn does it about "never underestimate Joe's ability to f-things up" -- on the heels of the CNN-Ukraine-call-coverage, and you blame HIM?!!!
Indeed. Fear not….”He will deliver his people.” Maranatha!
BTTT
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