• slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    To my knowledge, it’s the first time in history that a non-nuclear power invaded and occupied territory belonging to a nuclear power.

    So, that’s even more dubious history Putin played a part in.

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      3 months ago

      As long as no one’s nuclear trigger fingers get itchy, I’ll be happy.

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        3 months ago

        My preferred fictional outcome is Putin orders a full launch, but almost all the missiles just do a small fart in their tubes as no maintenance was done, and the ones that launch end up reaching escape velocity and disappearing because the people in charge of the silos had long since sold the payloads for yacht money…

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          3 months ago

          Unfortunately, the US has a launch on warning policy.

          So even if every warhead Russia has is a dud, or doesn’t even re-enter the atmosphere, they’ll still be nuked into a fine mist of concrete and carbonized human dust about 20 minutes after we realize their bombs don’t work.

          And then the rest of us get to live through nuclear winter.