@BremenBod Perhaps that was too perplexing an effort on my part to launch a tweet dive describing the religio-political dynamics encircling elite US and Russian decision-makers pondering 'just nuclear war', just now, but yes, you're right, you're not following me here. We align on this one.
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1/ 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. 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.
@BremenBod Russian Orthodoxy doesn't have a monopoly on infernal hypocrisy, Ross. What, for example, makes you imagine the American Catholic Church isn't already fully bought into the use of nuclear weapons, at the highest levels? Ultimately, we could all live or die by a Catholic choice.
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Copy of tweet here: Archbishop Broglio says he hopes the Pope and he will laugh about the claim he's “anti-Francis” when they meet. I am sure Francis will be magnanimous when he sees Broglio, but it's unlikely he’s forgotten the back story & connections of the new leader of the US Bishops. ENDS Laugh? The spiritual derangement of good religious war pimps (Broglio heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services) consecrating the devastating obscenity of a global militarist matrix? Pitiful absurdity, meriting not a single reference, anywhere? Now *that's* laughable.