AI6YR Ben17h ago
Let's punch this puppy into a website. One nuclear armed madman plus large city... Not including fallout. How many millions dead?
Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography12h ago
@ai6yr So the only flaw is that they would most likely use a Minuteman III which would have a nominal yield of 300KT
Show threadJim Hubbell11h ago
@cvvhrn @ai6yr
Why would he only use one?
Show threadFreddyB Aviation Photography11h ago

@Dougfir @ai6yr

I would assume because of the fallout literal and political would be more than the cult GQP can bear

If you start hitting places on the gulf side you may frag our "allies" with fallout etc

Show threadAI6YR Ben11h ago
@cvvhrn @Dougfir It's bad to nuke the people who give you planes
Show threadD11h ago
@ai6yr @cvvhrn @Dougfir It's bad to nuke people.
Show threadJim Hubbell11h ago
@driusan @ai6yr @cvvhrn
And yet here we are.
Show threadAI6YR Ben11h ago
@Dougfir @driusan @cvvhrn Well, I'd argue it's bad to nuke ANYTHING (plants, animals, planets, people, fungi, etc.)
Show threadD11h ago
@ai6yr @Dougfir @cvvhrn maybe squirrels or mosquittos.
Show threadAI6YR Ben11h ago
@driusan @cvvhrn @Dougfir Ah, but even a tactical nuke at the squirrel hideout on the hill next to my house will make Los Angeles uninhabitable for a generations. (well, at least for those who don't want extra limbs)
Show threadJim Hubbell10h ago
@ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn
Fun little story from back in the day.
We would have air raid drills in junior high in the 60s. One fine day, our teacher said don't bother climbing under the chairs. Between March AFB and Norton on the other side of Box Springs mountain, there was no way any of us would survive. While probably true, that was less comforting than he intended.
Show threadMsMerope9h ago

@Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn
So yeah, I went to an elementary school adjacent to the Alameda, Naval Air Station, and this was during the Vietnam war, and we too, had to do the duck and cover under our desks, unfortunately, as has been the case since my time began…

Even at the age of seven, I was a highly logical thinker and had the audacity to inform the teacher that hiding under our desks was a waste of time because we were gonna get blown up anyway

Yeah, that was a phone call to my parents …

Show threadWeather_Rock_Wx

@MsMerope @Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn

We had a bomb shelter built into the hillside opposite my elementary school. It was also used for community events - I remember getting the polio vaccine on a sugar cube there. Perhaps one of my earliest memories.

When I was a bit older-old enough to swear- the air raid siren went off in the middle of the night. This also was during the Cold War. I remember thinking “Oh no, those bastards, they wouldn’t would they?”

I really don’t (didn’t?) want to go back to those feelings of insecurity.

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