Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@chomsky_quotes Let’s hear it for more in the way of divine intervention, shall we?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Aug 2020

@nils_gilman For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting...

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @covidyoga #HiroshimaDay2022 The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises some 3,700 deployed bombs/warheads, equivalent to about 58,039 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Explode one of those bombs per minute and it would take 40.3 days to use them all.Quoted by@covidyoga #HiroshimaDay2022 The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises some 3,700 deployed bombs/warheads, equivalent to about 58,039 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Explode one of those bombs per minute and it would take 40.3 days to use them all.Quoted by@johnrobb @dianabutlerbass 3/ “Danger itself invites the rescuing power.” - Holderlin. Nuclear weapons constitute a threat not to any one country, but to the planet as a whole. No one should have the power to blow the world to smithereens. #Easter2022Quoted by@justfp @QuincyInst @RStatecraft @CBS 5/ @Twitter, destroyer of worlds? @Policy?Quoted by@KairosCenterNYC @shaillybarnes No time to waste.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @JRHunTx The question, irrelevant. Nuclear weapons constitute a threat not to any one individual country, but to the planet as a whole. No country should have the power to destroy the world. Image: Taghreed Darghouth, (1979), Lebanon, From “Brighter than a thousand Suns” Series.Quoted by@JRHunTx The question, irrelevant. Nuclear weapons constitute a threat not to any one individual country, but to the planet as a whole. No country should have the power to destroy the world. Image: Taghreed Darghouth, (1979), Lebanon, From “Brighter than a thousand Suns” Series.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @MikeBilbeTaylor @thebafflermag “The largest hydrogen bomb the United States ever tested yielded about fifteen megatons, or about one thousand Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union tested a weapon with a design yield of one hundred megatons that was modified to constrain its yield to only fifty-eight megatons.” Beastly.Quoted by@MikeBilbeTaylor @thebafflermag “The largest hydrogen bomb the United States ever tested yielded about fifteen megatons, or about one thousand Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union tested a weapon with a design yield of one hundred megatons that was modified to constrain its yield to only fifty-eight megatons.” Beastly.Quoted by#HiroshimaDay2021 #DivineIntervention2021