Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@johnrobb 'A brush with nuclear war.' Now there's a euphemism to end all euphemisms or, rather, the entirety of life on earth. You finding it a tad odd, these days, how manifestly blasé folk are, about thermonuclear war? What do they imagine? War as fiction? A pillow fight? Winning?
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Sept 2022
2/ 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.
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Painting of nuclear explosion by Taghreed Darghouth, Lebanon, "Brighter than a thousand Suns” Series.