#1 2014-03-28 13:15:24
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#2 2014-03-28 13:39:24
Umm... OK, I get that a thermonuclear war would be, shall we say, less than an optimal outcome. However, one wonders why an environmental disaster did not follow Hiroshima/Nagasaki and all the above-ground testing that went on during the 50's?
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#3 2014-03-28 16:56:45
"Study: ‘Small’ Nuclear War Would Destroy The World" should actually read "Study: ‘Small’ Nuclear War Would Temporarily Eliminate the Environment Needed to Sustain Human Life But Would Eventually Settle Back Down and the Planet Would Go On Without Us".
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#4 2014-03-28 17:36:12
whosasailorthen wrote:
Umm... OK, I get that a thermonuclear war would be, shall we say, less than an optimal outcome. However, one wonders why an environmental disaster did not follow Hiroshima/Nagasaki and all the above-ground testing that went on during the 50's?
They were itty bitty back then compared to what we have now. In fact, the equivalent of the bomb dropped at Hiroshima is pretty much the trigger for the mega kiloton beauties we now have. Isaac Asimov did write a short story in the 60s called "Silly Asses" that addressed testing nuclear weapons on the planet we live on, instead of space or the moon.
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#5 2014-03-29 05:10:43
whosasailorthen wrote:
one wonders why an environmental disaster did not follow Hiroshima/Nagasaki and all the above-ground testing that went on during the 50's?
Well let's ask the natives of the islands near Bikini Atoll...
...oh that's right we had to relocate all of them because the entire area is still un-inhabitable.
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#7 2014-03-31 13:06:20
Emmeran wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
one wonders why an environmental disaster did not follow Hiroshima/Nagasaki and all the above-ground testing that went on during the 50's?
Well let's ask the natives of the islands near Bikini Atoll...
...oh that's right we had to relocate all of them because the entire area is still un-inhabitable.
Collateral damage. There weren't enough of them to matter in the big picture of nuclear geopolitics. Besides, what have they contributed to the world, besides the bikini I mean.
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#8 2014-03-31 17:03:50
phreddy wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
one wonders why an environmental disaster did not follow Hiroshima/Nagasaki and all the above-ground testing that went on during the 50's?
Well let's ask the natives of the islands near Bikini Atoll...
...oh that's right we had to relocate all of them because the entire area is still un-inhabitable.Collateral damage. There weren't enough of them to matter in the big picture of nuclear geopolitics. Besides, what have they contributed to the world, besides the bikini I mean.
They didn't even contribute that. A French fashion designer gave the name to his skimpy creation as a political statement.
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