• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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      Can’t be passed over for the Nobel peace prize if the prize committee is reduced to radioactive slag.

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    On the plus side: Building and maintaining a nuclear stockpile is extremely expensive. This will serve as yet another open, gushing tap on Russia’s finances as they haemorrhage money from the war.

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      I don’t think this is a good deal for the US. It costs them equally much, and China will also gain the “official” opportunity to make nuclear tests, a field where they don’t have as much experience as the US the the regional power Russia.

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    Next announcements are coming from China, N. Korea, Pakistan, India and so on. Israel will cowardly remain silent. So much winning, so much peace.

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      Perhaps this is the first step towards a new START treaty that includes the countries you mentioned? I doubt that’s Trump’s intentions but that outcome seems probable if everyone starts testing.

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      Israel doesn’t have to say anything. The US government is under them even without the nukes everyone assumes they have.

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    Lol, Vladdy already tried a nuclear test. Was it last year? This year? I forget… Either way, it failed.

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      Are you sure you’re not thinking of a test of a nuclear-powered thruster for a non-nuclear weapon?

      That’s an important distinction.

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        You mean a dirty nuclear bomb/rocket that can easily swap out a conventional warhead for a nuclear one.

        That is not an important distinction. It was a nuclear test.