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Originally Posted by nik-
I think people forget just how horrifying nuclear weapons are. I mean everyone obviously has a general understanding and "end of the world" type knowledge, but it's vague and background. I don't think people realize just how much destruction one of the standard warheads causes.
A single W88 450ish kt warhead dropped on Calgary (which is child's play in terms of yield, 12 of them can fit on one missile from a missile sub) would destroy absolutely everything in a diameter from Nose Hill to Chinook. Surviving a nuclear holocaust would be horrible, there'd just really be nothing left.
Everyone everywhere should be living in a constant state of rage that we still have thousands of these things, but people just kind of forget. Even the Iran deal probably doesn't really remind them, they just think "Yeah, nukes are bad".
When you watch that explosion and say "Holy ####, that's a massive fireball and shockwave" and then it hits you how much smaller it is than any nuke ever even successfully tested, your mind can barely process the power.
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Tens of thousands of them.
This is a photo of an underwater atomic weapons test from 1946.
The black spot highlighted in the photo is the USS Arkansas, a battleship that held over 1000 men. It weighed over 26
thousand tons and on it's end in the photo is nearly as tall as the Calgary Tower.
The power is incomprehensible.