They were normally designed to drop on huge tank armies attacking you. Hence USSR hated them and NATO was keen on them.What is a battlefield nuclear weapon supposed to be?
A fucking nasty indiscriminate dirty bomb dipped in Fairy Liquid?
Surely any nuke is going to mess things up in the place it lands for hundreds and hundreds of years?
Yes,but an artisanal organic deterrent is no use if no one knows about itand now you're breaking the OSA by telling us that Brighton is not the central hub for our nukes.
Loose lips...
That's how it kicked off in Threads.They were normally designed to drop on huge tank armies attacking you. Hence USSR hated them and NATO was keen on them
ach away. It's science fiction.
I'd be much more worried if the Russians were loudly saying they weren't going to use nuclear bombs.
Its the only thing that will stop the Ukrainian offensive when it kicks offATM the west has very few battlefield nukes and Russia got quite a few still kicking about
I've always liked that one of the boats is called HMS Vengeance. Quite fitting given what it's designed to do.Yeah, most things they’ve done they denied. Plus Trident is probably currently positioned somewhere in the Black Sea.
I've always liked that one of the boats is called HMS Vengeance. Quite fitting given what it's designed to do.
Bold headline from the Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War
Opinion | The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War
Washington might study Cold War-era practices that had a major effect on Soviet policy making.www.wsj.com
Wonder Land: Virtually the whole world has committed to repelling Vladimir Putin's invasion in a kind of spontaneous, crowd-funded alternative to the Armageddon tripwire.
Soz I cant get that paywall thing to work for some reasonAny paywall crackers about?
Ta.Here you go - archive.ph
I'm a traffic warden that is are fav fantasy film wardens get guns .do you want a link to threads if you want something cheery Farmers
I wondered the other night, what the crew do after delivering the final blow from a dead nation. Head to New Zealand as refugees maybe.
If we had howitzers two months ago, Mariupol would not happen because they wouldn’t be able to surround like they did, to surround the city and literally destroy it ... For us, time means lives, thousands of lives. We’ve been hearing that it has been unprecedented how fast everything is moving and how fast the decisions are taking. But there has never been a war since World War Two like that. And unfortunately, we keep asking here to take the decisions faster.”
Ukraine and its allies therefore “likely have a narrow window of opportunity to support a Ukrainian counteroffensive into occupied Ukrainian territory before the Kremlin annexes that territory,”Lawlor and Clark write.He [Putin] will likely then state, directly or obliquely, that Russian doctrine permitting the use of nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory applies to those newly annexed territories.
Such actions would threaten Ukraine and its partners with nuclear attack if Ukrainian counteroffensives to liberate Russian-occupied territory continue. Putin may believe that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would restore Russian deterrence after his disastrous invasion shattered Russia’s conventional deterrent capabilities.
Putin’s timeline for annexation is likely contingent on the extent to which he understands the degraded state of the Russian military in Ukraine.
The Russian military has not yet achieved Putin’s stated territorial objectives of securing all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and is unlikely to do so.
If Putin understands his military weakness, he will likely rush annexation and introduce the nuclear deterrent quickly in an attempt to retain control of the Ukrainian territory that Russia currently occupies.
If Putin believes that Russian forces are capable of additional advances, he will likely delay the annexation in hopes of covering more territory with it.
In that case, his poor leadership and Ukrainian counteroffensives could drive the Russian military toward a state of collapse.
Putin could also attempt to maintain Russian attacks while mobilizing additional forces. He might delay announcing annexation for far longer in this case, waiting until reinforcements could arrive to gain more territory to annex.
Ukraine and its allies therefore “likely have a narrow window of opportunity to support a Ukrainian counteroffensive into occupied Ukrainian territory before the Kremlin annexes that territory,”Lawlor and Clark write.He [Putin] will likely then state, directly or obliquely, that Russian doctrine permitting the use of nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory applies to those newly annexed territories.
Such actions would threaten Ukraine and its partners with nuclear attack if Ukrainian counteroffensives to liberate Russian-occupied territory continue. Putin may believe that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would restore Russian deterrence after his disastrous invasion shattered Russia’s conventional deterrent capabilities.
Putin’s timeline for annexation is likely contingent on the extent to which he understands the degraded state of the Russian military in Ukraine.
The Russian military has not yet achieved Putin’s stated territorial objectives of securing all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and is unlikely to do so.
If Putin understands his military weakness, he will likely rush annexation and introduce the nuclear deterrent quickly in an attempt to retain control of the Ukrainian territory that Russia currently occupies.
If Putin believes that Russian forces are capable of additional advances, he will likely delay the annexation in hopes of covering more territory with it.
In that case, his poor leadership and Ukrainian counteroffensives could drive the Russian military toward a state of collapse.
Putin could also attempt to maintain Russian attacks while mobilizing additional forces. He might delay announcing annexation for far longer in this case, waiting until reinforcements could arrive to gain more territory to annex.
Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks covered this, didn't they? If not, they should have done.
We have concerns about escalation and yet still do not want to put geographic limits or tie their hands too much with the stuff we’re giving them,” one US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It's a Friday.did the russian threaten to Nuke everyone again
Not sure, but the articles linked to suggest that the threat of escalation is being taken seriously by all sides.did the russian threaten to Nuke everyone again