Animated map of military purpose nuclear explosions 1945-1998

[SiberianTiger]

Sorry if it had been posted here before.

 

[Turbinator]

What a sick disgusting world we live in.
And nobody except the USA used it against people.




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[Moach]

wow, man! we suck

no wonder none of the other intelligent civilizations out there wanna play with us :nono:

 

[Frogisis]

It's like an M.A.D. version of Dueling Banjos.

 

[Moach]

It's like an M.A.D. version of Dueling Banjos.

yep, pretty much


bah... humans... when will they cease :facepalm:

 

[T.Neo]

Yeah, seems like this is turning into a session of human-hate. :dry:

Obviously no notice is paid to the fact that the arms race of the cold war, of which nuclear testing was a part, is in place of what would have been an extremely destructive war in which millions of people would have died, even with the lack of nuclear weapons.

Maybe it is a better future, when mankind fights wars by show, rather than force...

 

[Moach]

all war is bad, nuclear or not... it's still people killing people - which is a very stupid thing...


indeed, if live displays of firepower can substitute the actuall killing, it does show -some- progress towards a more "sane" world...

i wonder if this means one day, a whole war could be sorted out in some sort of incredibly accurate tactical simulation, which would pretty much "announce" the outcome of a military campaign without lives being lost.... the losing side would back down in fear of his fateful outcome :hmm:


it's what i always say: war should only exist inside videogames

 

[T.Neo]

The problem with "war existing inside videogames" is that it works if you are fighting a respectable enemy, but not if you are fighting a dis-respectable one- any reason for fighting would be because of a dis-respectable enemy...

 

[Moach]

The problem with "war existing inside videogames" is that it works if you are fighting a respectable enemy, but not if you are fighting a dis-respectable one- any reason for fighting would be because of a dis-respectable enemy...

yes, that is true... that's why it's such an utopic idea..... i said it would be neat, yet i don't really think it's gonna happen

 

[Unstung]

Jeez, I'm surprised nobody in the US has mutated yet.

 

[Izack]

Jeez, I'm surprised nobody in the US has mutated yet.

Haven't they? :lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Jeez, I'm surprised nobody in the US has mutated yet.

That's why we have 2.5 children!

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Aren't all nuclear explosions for military purposes?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Aren't all nuclear explosions for military purposes?

There were exceptions. Some of the explosions were done for civilian purposes (by my sources, 27 in the USA and 124 in the USSR): [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions"]Peaceful nuclear explosions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Also discussed earlier here: http://orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=172034&postcount=14

 

[Ghostrider]

Atmospheric nuclear tests in the US were actually a communist plot. It was the only way they could kill John Wayne.
And even with nukes, they had to bring Ghenghis Khan in.

 

[Fizyk]

Watching that film made me think - hey, people worried about Chernobyl so much, but if it was that bad, all of us should already be dead because of that 2053 nuclear explosions.

 

[T.Neo]

If each detonation released 10 tons of radioactive material (and many of the detonations did not release fallout into the atmosphere, because they were subterranean), it's still less than half the annual uranium production in 2009, spread over a 53 year period.

The Earth is full of natural radioactivity. Even humans contain radioactive elements.

Honestly, I'd be more worried about the radioactive materials released in the burning of coal, or radon leaking into my basement.

 

[Wishbone]

Some of those "peaceful" nukes were bloody botched, even with generally small yields (up to 20 kt AFAIK), those who did it sometimes did not provide good containment. Lots of cancer deaths are the result of atmospheric and fffd up underground explosions. Deer ate lichen, Northern people ate deer... and the US nuked near Las Vegas...

Re: T.Neo and the myth of underground explosions. The truth is they did not know (IAEA reports do show that) whether any particular test would be fully contained. A fault in the mountain, or inadequate plumbing of the shaft/tunnel could easily lead to large quantities of strontium and caesium wafting upwards, even into the stratosphere.

 

[T.Neo]

I don't see how there is a myth of underground explosions, when they clearly occured and were documented.

You will incur less release of radioactive materials if you detonate a nuke underground than you will if you do it in the open air...

 

[Wishbone]

Agreed. It is just that I sometimes meet people who think underground explosions were harmless, hence the word "myth". And I am probably watching Discovery channel too much