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"Israeli attack on nuclear sites to prompt tit-for-tat, pursuing nukes: Iran posted:
Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, explosions heard in Isfahan: Report posted:ABC News reports missiles striking a target in Iran, with Iran’s state TV reporting explosions in Isfahan. Hubbert has issued a correction as of 03:13 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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StashAugustine posted:It's really funny to me that legit the best thing to come out of the Trump administration was the vaccines It's funny because all they did was waive the usual rules. The real accomplishment was done by those they would identify as the deep state as well as scientists they hate.
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Owlbear Camus posted:"The USS Ford was lost today with all hands due to a mishap that occurred during routine training." did it walk down some airplane steps?
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Cerebral Bore posted:the thing is, even assuming that this stuff works perfectly, the submarines you really need to worry about aren't gonna be anywhere near your coasts rand thinktankers and epic osinters believe that the one weird trick to defeating china off taiwan is to park submarines physically in the taiwan strait and nobody seems to be rebutting them that this is a bad idea publically
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/politics/chad-us-troops-threat/index.htmlquote:cnn.com on an unrelated note chad is rattling the saber to kick out the yankees
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Danann posted:rand thinktankers and epic osinters believe that the one weird trick to defeating china off taiwan is to park submarines physically in the taiwan strait and nobody seems to be rebutting them that this is a bad idea publically isn't the Taiwan strait so shallow they could see the submarines from the air?
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jetz0r posted:Sinking a carrier would cost a lot of money, so people would freak out. Just killing all those sailors without hurting the boat would be no big deal. I don’t think the US really cares about having the carriers to a degree. The important part is handing out big checks to MIC grifters and a blown up carrier seems like a good excuse to browbeat congress into a few hundred billion in carrier building contracts (carriers will not actually be built deliverable date will be a soft twenty years from now). The ideal situation is Ukraine and Israel where they can just endlessly spend money on equipment and munitions without any tedious casualty PR to manage (Israel doesn’t make this easy by being so cartoonishly psychotic though), but carriers sinking are just PR situations and not a military disaster. I don’t think anyone with power actually cares about military capability anymore. As long as the US military has full spectrum dominance of the cultural and funding battle spaces they are winning.
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having one of the main physical embodiments of your military might sunk would absolutely bother people in power lol
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Proust Malone posted:did it walk down some airplane steps? lmfao
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 04:33 |
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StashAugustine posted:It's really funny to me that legit the best thing to come out of the Trump administration was the vaccines What about the eviction moratorium?
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Gripweed posted:isn't the Taiwan strait so shallow they could see the submarines from the air? greatest burger brains think it's not a factor in submarine survivability there
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 04:59 |
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BrotherJayne posted:What about the eviction moratorium? Unironically that and the Trump Bucks caused a decrease in suicide rates. Tbf they were down slightly in 2019, too. I don't know why.
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people were excited for a new half life game.
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Speaking of half-life related topicsquote:I asked Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, what he believed back in the 1960s was the status of technical locks on the Minuteman intercontinental missiles. ... he regarded them as essential to strict central control and preventing unauthorized launch.
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How hard is it even to build a nuclear bomb? The technology's been around since the 1940's, it's not like it's some brand new concept. Surprising that more countries don't have them, now I think about it
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 11:08 |
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my understanding is that the technical knowhow and gadgetry required to set off explosives against fissile material in a configuration and with enough precision to trigger a nuclear explosion is fairly well-known and easily achievable given contemporary technology the tricky part is A. acquiring the fissile material, and B. developing a delivery system for it (i.e. a missile)
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enriching uranium is a huge sink of time and resources with no usable product until it all works. Iran had tech to do low grade enrichment 3-4 years ago, and in the last 2 has started pushing to weapons grade. They probably have enough on hand NOW (the last 6 months) to make 1 or 2 if they used every centrifuge they have for high grade entrichment. They have the enrichment capacity to make one ever 3-4 months from scratch, or furnish their stockpile of existing material into a few bombs worth in a month. A lot of their enriched material is in gaseous form (Flouride centrifugal process) and needs to be forged into metallics for weapons use. It's not instant, and sitting on it was giving them the grace of god up until now. Amassing it makes you able to do rapid testing once your ready. Their goal is to save the material till they have the other stuff 100% right, cause a dud that wastes material would set them back months or years if their capacity is diminished by attacks.
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Gripweed posted:isn't the Taiwan strait so shallow they could see the submarines from the air? Averages 200 feet deep, and it’s ~100 miles wide at its narrowest point.
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it's amazing how literally no one is doing anything to stop this fallout tv show like "oops, we fortune tellers". god I hope I'm a thirst trap ghoul.
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Pistol_Pete posted:How hard is it even to build a nuclear bomb? The technology's been around since the 1940's, it's not like it's some brand new concept. Surprising that more countries don't have them, now I think about it the general physics is understood, it’s just that obtaining the plutonium is hard, as is rigging up detonators to fire precisely in order to compress the nuclear material to not get a fizzle
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So according to this CNBC squawkbox in the hotel I'm in, Israel is currently launching attacks on Iran. It's beginning to look a lot like WW3 to me!
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US and Philippines will do naval exercise in the SCS "As part of these much-awaited drills, the forces will sink a target ship, reclaim an island, and sail in waters confronting the South China Sea. However, more interestingly, the ship that has been singled out as a mock target to be sunk by the Allies is a decommissioned Chinese naval tanker." I see the US is entertaining open a 3rd front?
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stephenthinkpad posted:US and Philippines will do naval exercise in the SCS they always do these drills though
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the general physics is understood, it’s just that obtaining the plutonium is hard, as is rigging up detonators to fire precisely in order to compress the nuclear material to not get a fizzle yep, getting concentrations of “weapons grade” isotopes (plutonium is common but other isotopes can be used like isotopes of uranium) is difficult and requires special equipment that the west tries to control access to. sparking a reaction is easier once you have the material. compression is a method, where an implosion evenly compresses a core of weapons grade material into a small hot mass able to sustain an extreme “super-critical” environment, more neurons produced per fission than was used (quick escalation of fission events, and to us an almost instantaneous big boom), you’ll need an explosive and a “shield” around it to direct the explosive energy inward to the core. a “gun”-type nuclear weapon design also existed iirc
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mycomancy posted:It's beginning to look a lot like WW3 to me! Pretty sure that started in 2014
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I saw someone mention the thought that nuclear weapons programs (in America at least) are really just funding scams, and I agree, but that’s par for the course for the MIC
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of the USAs nuclear triad, the only one I am pretty sure works is the bombers . but even then I don’t know if the bombs would work
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Pistol_Pete posted:How hard is it even to build a nuclear bomb? The technology's been around since the 1940's, it's not like it's some brand new concept. Surprising that more countries don't have them, now I think about it If I remember right when people were discussinf Oppenhimer, the staff of a mid level technical college could build one with the right resources
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there is an interesting and mediocre but entertaining 80s comedy called The Manhattan Project about this very topic, a high school student builds a bomb for the science fair. has John lithgow in it e: and Cynthia Nixon lol mags has issued a correction as of 13:37 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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yeah a classic atom bomb itself is deceptively simple to build, but getting the grade of fissile material required is anything but simple. especially with mossad/idf constantly bombing your centrifuges
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# ? Apr 19, 2024 13:38 |
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remember when the UK tested a slbm and it just sort of left the tube and tipped over for a belly flop? lol
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Owlbear Camus posted:remember when the UK tested a slbm and it just sort of left the tube and tipped over for a belly flop? lol lol if a nuclear exchange occurred (it won’t) it would be supremely awesome if none of ours launch
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mags posted:there is an interesting and mediocre but entertaining 80s comedy called The Manhattan Project with the premise of seldom mentioned laser isotope separation!
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Drano posted:with the premise of seldom mentioned laser isotope separation! the laser scene is pretty cool. the 80s loved lasers
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oh yeah the dad from Frasier is also in it
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mags posted:oh yeah the dad from Frasier is also in it sold
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mags posted:yep, getting concentrations of “weapons grade” isotopes (plutonium is common but other isotopes can be used like isotopes of uranium) is difficult and requires special equipment that the west tries to control access to. Note that this 'easier' method only gets you the classic fat man/little boy fission bomb. Modern thermonuclear fusion weapons rely on the same compression->fission principle but at a smaller scale as a boosted primary that produces a burst of x-rays. These x-rays then compress the gas secondary stage to create a much more energetic fusion reaction. They're a smaller and easier to deliver package but require much more precision in design than fission weapons.
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Car Hater posted:Note that this 'easier' method only gets you the classic fat man/little boy fission bomb. Modern thermonuclear fusion weapons rely on the same compression->fission principle but at a smaller scale as a boosted primary that produces a burst of x-rays. These x-rays then compress the gas secondary stage to create a much more energetic fusion reaction. They're a smaller and easier to deliver package but require much more precision in design than fission weapons. what if we set off the nuclear bomb with a tiny nuclear bomb
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mlmp08 posted:Averages 200 feet deep, and it’s ~100 miles wide at its narrowest point. I don't know oceans is that a lot? 200 feet doesn't seem like a lot.
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Nothus posted:The degree to which blank checks were handed out and regulations were waived to get a passable vaccine was breathtaking. I've spent my entire adult life in biotechnology and I had never seen anything like it. Hilarious too that a lot of people didn't take the vaccine because 'it was too rushed'. Nah man, IRB actually met to review the protocol the hour it was submitted, rather than taking three loving months to get around to it, like usual, and oops, you need to file an amendment, let's try again in a few months. Also recruitment met their goals in a day due to the overwhelming amount of volunteers, rather than having to beg people to sign up for months and still probably not even hit the cohort count and losing the grant. And then the massive amount of eyes and scrutiny on analysing the adverse effects from all arms, accomplished in part by reporting prioritizing your requests for data same day, instead of sitting on the req for weeks due to lack of manpower. It's amazing what can be accomplished when everyone works towards the same clear goal. It was the most efficient and successful multi-site clinical trial ever and we'll never do anything like this ever again.
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