larry.fisherman said:

How many of those 6k+ nukes of Russia's do you think are cobalt?

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TheFakeSunRa said:

budmanman said:

If Ukraine didn't denuclearize in the 90s under Bill Clintons watch this wouldn't be happening.

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They didn’t have the infrastructure in place to safely maintain a huge nuclear arsenal and had the decency and humility to admit it but every stupid right wing fuck is going to make this point forever. It’ll go down in history with if it wasn’t for America they’d be speaking German right now.

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Brian Jones said:

I thought maybe you were just trying to talk up the price of gold. I never heard of it. When I looked it up, all I got was a shot of Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps with 4 or 5 ounces of Red Bull.

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Radioactive isotopes that have been suggested for salted bombs include gold-198, tantalum-182, zinc-65, and cobalt-60.[1] Physicist W. H. Clark looked at the potential of such devices and estimated that a 20 megaton bomb salted with sodium would generate sufficient radiation to contaminate 200,000 square miles (520,000 km2) (an area that is slightly larger than Spain or Thailand, though smaller than France). Given the intensity of the gamma radiation, not even those in basement shelters could survive within the fallout zone.[5] However, the short half-life of sodium-24 (15 h)[6]: 25  would mean that the radiation would not spread far enough to be a true doomsday weapon.[5][7]

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christopera said:

I'm not sure I am rooting for the suffering of the Russian people. I see all these corporation bailing from Russia in PR moves, sure it might stir unrest there, or might just decrease the quality of life while the autocracy marches on.

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Asante said:

The gold bomb is a cobalt bomb on steroids. It works the same way, an element by neutron capture gets converted to a radioactive isotope of that element.

Why a gold tamper instead of a cobalt one?

Gold-198 is 713x more radioactive than Cobalt-60 which means that in the first few hours and days after the blast, the fallout region is absolutely gushing with radiation, resulting in greatly increased immediate casualties while in a fairly short term, the fallout is no more radioactive than regular fallout.

Suppose you had to strike an enemy with a dagger, and to assure positive function, you decide to poison the dagger. Would you poison it with a super rapid poison that drops the enemy at a slight nick, or would you smear the blade with shi so that he'd die weeks later?

In almost all cases, the tactical advantage is in dropping the opponent fast, which is why nerve gas is superior to mustard gas and radiogold to radiocobalt.

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Reports of a significant armor engagement in a suburb of Kyiv, …between Russian forces. Friendly fire restulted in the loss of 9 tanks and 4 infantry fighting vehicles.

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christopera said:

I'm not sure I am rooting for the suffering of the Russian people. I see all these corporation bailing from Russia in PR moves, sure it might stir unrest there, or might just decrease the quality of life while the autocracy marches on.

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koods said:

christopera said:

I'm not sure I am rooting for the suffering of the Russian people. I see all these corporation bailing from Russia in PR moves, sure it might stir unrest there, or might just decrease the quality of life while the autocracy marches on.

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In the end, this is the fault of the Russian people who have let themselves be ruled by autocrats for over a hundred years. It’s a weakness in their culture that has created generations of weak submissive people

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