• IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    Its not a completely unreasonable stance to take tbh. When your looking at radar of a missile strike coming in theres really no way to garuntee the payloads are conventional when the missiles are provided by a nuclear state. And with how close Ukraine is and how fast modern missiles are it doesnt give you much time to figure it out. A big part of nuclear war doctrine is you try to launch first to disable your enemies launch capabilities. If Russia has even a passing concern their launch capabilities could be threatened they WILL launch. I really hope the idiots running the world are careful with this.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      1 day ago

      This was an absolutely terrifying interview with Theodore Postol regarding just how littler response time Russia has in case of a nuclear strike. A decision basically has to be made under 5 minutes, which rules out any sort of a centralized response coordinated at the top. The people in charge of the weapons basically have to make a call immediately whether they end the world or not.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH7LT1bIdpY