Making anglo North Americans even more paranoid and racist, getting them hyped for a war with China? Distract people from actually terrible things like the poisoned town in Ohio, increasing effects of climate change, our bleak present and even bleaker future? Is China just trolling the US and Canada? Aliens? What is going on lol

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Nah you can shoot down a nuke. For a nuclear detonation to occur the fissile material has to be pushed together in just the right way with microsecond precision. If you shoot at it or blow it up with a bomb or something all you're going to get is a squirt of hot plutonium and a fizzle. It's still an environmental mess wherever the plutonium lands, but it's not going to be a nuclear detonation. and even if it was it's at 40,000 feet over Yukon. It'd be a pretty fireball but it wouldn't do any damage. Might not even knock over trees on the surface.