If true..,

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    What kind of nuclear warhead gets shot down and doesn't explode? And if it did supposedly explode, everyone would be able to detect the blasts, including people who don't live in the region (e.g. scientists monitoring activity on earth)

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      6 months ago

      All of them? Like literally all of them. They're not conventional explosives, they contain subcritical cores the are combined during activation to make a supercritical mass, which causes the explosion - if you blow up the nuke, it's very unlikely those cores are going near each other.

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      6 months ago

      Huh? Nuclear warheads take a very specific set of actions to explode. Getting shot down generally renders them inert.