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Trump orders Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing nuclear weapons after three-decade embargo

https://lemmings.world/post/36189830

Trump orders Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing nuclear weapons after three-decade embargo - Lemmings.world

Lemmy

Oct 30 at 5:51amWeb
Show threadMultiplexerOct 30

But why?
What does he believe he gains by this?

Nobody thinks that US nuclear weapons are not working.

Including the weapon designers, who have by now better ways to predict and verify nuclear high temperature physics behaviour.

Show threadal4sOct 30
In absence of a better explanation, I suspect it’s for the same reason he needed a military parade on his birthday.
Show threadRotheOct 30
He likes when things go boom. Also his entire life he has tried to imitate the behaviour of a mob boss (now upgraded to dictators), and he thinks this is how a mob boss/dictator would act, which is probably not wrong.
Show threadCypherOct 30
I have the perfect test site in mind, an already toxic cesspit in Florida
Show threadBillMurrayOct 30
Did he just watch House of Dynamite on Netflix?