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Nyu Shin
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Posted - 2009.09.25 09:25:00 -
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Hi,
an article from wired about cold war doomsday : http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all
most interesting and funny thing about it:
"According to both Yarynich and Zheleznyakov, Perimeter was never meant as a traditional doomsday machine. The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves.
By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis. The point, Zheleznyakov says, was "to cool down all these hotheads and extremists."
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ceaon
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.09.25 12:12:00 -
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u fail to link that
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soldieroffortune 258
Gallente Trinity Council
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Posted - 2009.09.26 04:33:00 -
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Edited by: soldieroffortune 258 on 26/09/2009 04:37:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Originally by: Wikipedia The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth.[7] Its Richter magnitude was about 5 to 5.25.[8] The energy yield was around 7.1 on the Richter scale, but since the bomb was detonated in air rather than underground, most of the energy was not converted to seismic waves.
Originally by: Nyu Shin Hi,
an article from wired about cold war doomsday : http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all
most interesting and funny thing about it:
"According to both Yarynich and Zheleznyakov, Perimeter was never meant as a traditional doomsday machine. The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves.
By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis. The point, Zheleznyakov says, was "to cool down all these hotheads and extremists."
Please re-size your signature to a maximum of 400 x 120 with the file size not exceeding 24000 bytes.Applebabe
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goodby4u
Valor Inc. Cosmic Anomalies
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Posted - 2009.09.26 04:41:00 -
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What is frightening is that is not the strongest thermonuclear bomb ever created, it was simply the strongest thermonuclear bomb ever detonated.
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Iasius
Mercurialis Inc. Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.09.26 11:02:00 -
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At the time of the Tsar bomb Russian nukes were more inaccurate than american nuclear missiles. So the Russians impressed on the west ok but we will just use more powerful ones.
I am worried about Pakistans nukes. Lots of crazed fundamentalists in that country who would love to get their hands on a nuke to take a pop at the west. Please resize image to a maximum of 400 x 120, not exceeding 24000 bytes. ~Saint |
BiggestT
Caldari Amarrian Retribution
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Posted - 2009.09.26 11:17:00 -
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The bomb's blast radius was only 4km (8km diamater).
That's smaller than a large smartbomb
Imagine seeing a dd near Earth xD
Oh wait, it's all imaginary *goes outside* EVE Trivia EVE History
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hired goon
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Posted - 2009.09.26 11:31:00 -
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Originally by: Iasius At the time of the Tsar bomb Russian nukes were more inaccurate than american nuclear missiles. So the Russians impressed on the west ok but we will just use more powerful ones.
I am worried about Pakistans nukes. Lots of crazed fundamentalists in that country who would love to get their hands on a nuke to take a pop at the west.
I do war studies at Kings College London, and we study nukes and nuclear philosophy quite a bit. The thing that scared me the most was when one of my lecturers (and they all have govt ties here) told us that she knew for a fact that, at the height of pakistani/indian hostilities, the Indian goverment met in secret to seriously discuss the deployment of their nuclear weapons over Pakistan. No one knows it, but we really were this close. -omg-
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Irida Mershkov
Gallente War is Bliss
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Posted - 2009.09.26 12:01:00 -
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Originally by: hired goon
Originally by: Iasius At the time of the Tsar bomb Russian nukes were more inaccurate than american nuclear missiles. So the Russians impressed on the west ok but we will just use more powerful ones.
I am worried about Pakistans nukes. Lots of crazed fundamentalists in that country who would love to get their hands on a nuke to take a pop at the west.
I do war studies at Kings College London, and we study nukes and nuclear philosophy quite a bit. The thing that scared me the most was when one of my lecturers (and they all have govt ties here) told us that she knew for a fact that, at the height of pakistani/indian hostilities, the Indian goverment met in secret to seriously discuss the deployment of their nuclear weapons over Pakistan. No one knows it, but we really were this close.
Wasn't much of a secret meeting if you now know about it! (Badumptsc~)
I think I remember calling from a documentary that Nukes were a discussed option in Vietnam too.
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