• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    Nuclear material decays and as it decays, will not detonate with the energy from the explosive material it was built with. It NEEDS to be replaced on an regular basis, depending on the type it is. It’s not a matter of a chance o-ring dry rotting or chance capacitor leaking or chance fuel going bad.

    Putin’s a bully. There’s an implicate threat that Putin will use nukes if he doesn’t get what he wants, but he’ll never be happy with what he has. The best case scenario is he croaks on his own because he’s too damn paranoid to let someone near him assassinate him. He’s probably scared shitless from the recent drone attack on his palace.

    Russia has blackmail on “The West.” That’s why they’re complicate. Politicians are self serving shits. If they cared about unnecessary deaths, they would have handled Covid better.

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      Nuclear material decays and as it decays, will not detonate with the energy from the explosive material it was built with. It NEEDS to be replaced on an regular basis, depending on the type it is. It’s not a matter of a chance o-ring dry rotting or chance capacitor leaking or chance fuel going bad.

      That’s 1940s technology.

      Putin’s a bully. There’s an implicate threat that Putin will use nukes if he doesn’t get what he wants, but he’ll never be happy with what he has. The best case scenario is he croaks on his own because he’s too damn paranoid to let someone near him assassinate him. He’s probably scared shitless from the recent drone attack on his palace.

      Not sure why you included this because it’s irrelevant and I agree, but I guess if you had to get a quick soapbox Red Herring out, it’s not like I can stop you.

      Russia has blackmail on “The West.” That’s why they’re complicate. Politicians are self serving shits. If they cared about unnecessary deaths, they would have handled Covid better.

      More Red Herring soapboxing. Try to stay on topic with your next comment.

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        https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/22540-05-ukraine-could-not-have-kept-nuclear

        Therefore, the general permitted lifespan of our nuclear warheads is 12 years. When they remain in operation beyond the identified term of service, they become especially dangerous for the environment. Ukraine does not have specialized facilities, including the material and technological base, for the processing and production of nuclear warheads. Ukraine cannot create such conditions independently. In accordance with the non-proliferation of nuclear technology regime nobody has the right to provide Ukraine this kind of assistance.

        There’s more in there, but the gist is is that if Ukraine couldn’t have maintained the nukes they had then the USSR fell, I don’t think Russia could have either.

        My point in calling out Putin as a bully is that if he actually has working nukes, he will use then whether or not we abide by his threats or not.