This is a rare wedge issue among boomers. The much derided duck-and-cover drills, which really would have protected kids from the blast effects of a nearby atomic bomb, became nonsensical after the advent of far more powerful thermonuclear weapons that would just vaporize them.https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1228668771759542272 …
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Or imagine if the Cuban missile crisis had ended in global nuclear war. The small bands of mutant survivors still alive in 2020 would gather by the fire sometimes and try to imagine the alternate future that might have been, never fathoming to what extent they had dodged a bullet
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Also, nuclear winter fixes global warming, and a lot of people are going to reflect on that in the coming decades. Just sayin'.
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It would have been amazing! Just look at his wire drawing bench that I just saw at the museum!pic.twitter.com/dVX9g2K2iY
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The nuking tools would have been gorgeous!
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FWIW, in this case the mine would have likely been actively fissioning and would burn through its U-235, this actually has happened at far lower enrichment levels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor …
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There's an interesting digression in
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