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2023-09-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Nuclear weapons testing sites in US, China and Russia have all been newly expanded - as expert says it 'hints' the countries could resume detonations

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Everybody's (except perhaps China) nukes are getting older. A lot of the engineering of the actual 'pits' that do the detonating is based on assumptions, and half life vs enrichment purity has become a statisical issue.
If you spend a billion dollars on it and it maybe doesn't go bang at the right moment, you'd have been better off burning the money for heat.
In the US, they're setting up to try to make actual new pits for the first time in almost 50 years, that's how long we've been recycling the old pieces.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-09-23 08:40|| 2023-09-23 08:40|| Front Page Top

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