@atpapanik "...giving an imprimatur of moral legitimacy to Moscow’s vast arsenal..." In the greater light of recent developments upending the nuclear politics historically preventing Armageddon, broader Christian consideration of our common predicament is not, perhaps, unwise.
@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.