30.5 Days posted:

If your primary goal is making sure a dying, erratic empire doesn't suddenly convince themselves that their anti-missile systems can stop an ICBM and yolo'ing armageddon, these seem like a worthwhile investment.

Tankbuster posted:

What do you mean pivot to India? The smiling buddha tests were a direct response to the PRC getting the nukes.

Tankbuster posted:

Thats funny given that the US probably killed off Homi Bhaba to curtail the Indian nuclear program.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Some Indian startup made some weapons for the Indian troops who got into a hand to hand fight with Chinese soldiers on the border.

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1449972165751689216

Gorman Thomas posted:

Wouldn't it be much better to put the taser element on the palm? Imagine grappling with those loving things

Neurolimal posted:

Taser fists kinda cool ngl

i say swears online posted:

what if you wanted to slap ur bud's rear end

stephenthinkpad posted:

Every country was saying they didn't want nuke or was not developing nuke until they did the first test. This will happen to Iran too.

Grapplejack posted:

I personally don't think Iran will develop nuclear weapons because of the fatwah, but if Khomeini dies / is replaced and the new guy decides to change his mind we might see an Iranian nuclear program. There's also the threats that the Saudis have been making, which is that if Iran gets nuclear weapons they'll just buy some from Pakistan and nuke up themselves, which is very obviously A Horrible Outcome For Everyone

Atrocious Joe posted:

Xi needs to send all the posters in this thread to work in the countryside

i say swears online posted:

lmao that's a fascinating wiki page

aight here's the pdf of the policy paper written in anticipation of the first chinese nuclear bomb test (five weeks before kennedy got got), a few months before thebig event. it contains too many funny tidbits to post but i'd suggest anyone interested to skim through it. it gets interesting in the political recommendations part starting on Section VII starting near the bottom of page 72. highlights include "we should probably step up counterinsurgency efforts in southeast asia, that will work out well" and "if they detonate a bomb, we should not reconsider the ROC's place in the UN" (rip lol), and possibly my favorite section:



post ur favorites, this thing is illuminating and hilarious

Ardennes posted:

Yeah, I don't think Iran's lack of a program is a leadership issue, but rather than want the ability to have breakout ability as a deterrent threat without losing access to European markets. Israel has been obviously trying to delay this, but at this point it is pretty clear that Iran could have a program together if they truly wanted to and they have a delivery system to do so (at least IRBMs...I am sure they will probably have ICBM capabilities fairly soon).

i say swears online posted:

kinda surprising they don't; as soon as trump pulled out of the agreement they should have gone full manhattan project. we weren't going to invade and sanctions couldn't have been much worse

Gorman Thomas posted:

Wouldn't it be much better to put the taser element on the palm? Imagine grappling with those loving things

Tankbuster posted:

yeah but how could you do ebin kulturkampf?

Red and Black posted:

https://twitter.com/suidaila/status/1450412453066649607

Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/china/china-punish-parents-intl-hnk/index.html

looks like parents are about to get sent concentration camps for their unruly kids. and hell, Im ok with it.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Truga posted:

love the contrast between the headline and
In the draft of the family education promotion law, guardians will be reprimanded and ordered to go through family education guidance programs if prosecutors find very bad or criminal behavior in children under their care.

oh no, not counseling!

AnimeIsTrash posted:

quote:

China’s reactor will be “a test bed to do a lot of learning”, says Forsberg, from analysing corrosion to characterizing the radionucleotide composition of the mixture as it circulates.

“We are going to learn so much new science,” agrees Simon Middleburgh, a nuclear materials scientist at Bangor University, UK. “If they would let me, I’d be on the first plane there.”

It could take months for China’s reactor to reach full operation. “If anything along the way goes wrong, you can’t continue, and have to stop and start again,” says Middleburgh. For example, the pumps might fail, pipes could corrode or a blockage might occur. Nevertheless, scientists are hopeful of success.

Molten-salt reactors are just one of many advanced nuclear technologies China is investing in. In 2002, an intergovernmental forum identified six promising reactor technologies to fast-track by 2030, including reactors cooled by lead or sodium liquids. China has programmes for all of them.

Some of these reactor types could replace coal-fuelled power plants, says David Fishman, a project manager at the Lantau Group energy consultancy in Hong Kong. “As China cruises towards carbon neutrality, it could pull out [power plant] boilers and retrofit them with nuclear reactors.”

Nature 597, 311-312 (2021)

quote:

Russia will suspend the activities of its diplomatic mission to NATO and close the alliance’s offices in Moscow in response to its expulsion of eight Russians in a row over spying.

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1450503074523533322?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IKn73QmH4Q