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Trump orders immediate resumption of US nuclear weapons testing

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30 points hackthemack | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 02:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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r721 ◴[30 Oct 25 02:44 UTC] No.45755881[source]▶
I think he got confused with the terminology - Putin said he tested nuclear-powered Burevestnik, but that's not the same as testing nuclear weapons.
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measurablefunc ◴[30 Oct 25 03:11 UTC] No.45756038[source]▶
Technically it is a nuclear weapon. It uses radioactive material in some non-trivial capacity.
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ggm ◴[30 Oct 25 03:18 UTC] No.45756080[source]▶
I think "technically" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when the nuclear component is an engine. It's like classic geek ratholing.

if a nuclear submarine launches a tomahawk with a non-nuclear warhead is the entire weapons system "a nuclear weapon" in your eyes? Is that a breach of the arms treaties, and breaches "no first strike" posture and invites second strike response with nuclear warheads?

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measurablefunc ◴[30 Oct 25 03:24 UTC] No.45756113[source]▶
I wasn't arguing about semantics. Trump is an idiot but the people who work for him are not as idiotic so they saw the latest propaganda from Russia & decided that the new policy would be the proper response.
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mindslight ◴[30 Oct 25 05:57 UTC] No.45756824[source]▶
> Trump is an idiot but the people who work for him are not as idiotic

Apparently you haven't noticed that Tramp has been purging anyone loyal to the United States as a country and installing subservient apparatchiks in their place. This is not a dynamic which selects for intelligence, competence, or subject matter focus.

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1. ggm ◴[30 Oct 25 06:32 UTC] No.45756995[source]▶
If you're willing to work in this space, there's probably a cohort who would like to put a shot in the hole and make it go off. The simulations are good, but people have life goals and "working on a bomb including setting one off" is probably there.

Unless there are some shot holes prepped, there is a bit of engineering to get there first. "As quickly as possible" is slow, unless you repudiate the other treaty and do an above ground or underwater shot which the US hasn't done since 1992 and even then it was basically a buried one. It hasn't done an underwater test for far longer.