@bfcarlson Final words: "We've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament and we ought to recognize this common predicament." ~ Rheinhold Niebuhr
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 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... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020
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.