Lincoln1976
Senior Member
Still I was referring to nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl, sinking of a nuclear submarine, Issues with the Mayak power plant incident,
The Tsar bomb in 1961 is said to be the most powerful H bomb built and tested. So terrify that even sane people say that it is not where we want to go let keep with less powerful but powerful enough
The arms race to build a more powerful bomb how ridiculous is that.
Testing on your own land and blow it up, of course then they discovered islands would be better
I am just saying and it is hypothetical but if the US and Russia were to nuke it out
centuries from now the survivors would still be theorizing about how the dinosaurs became extinct and now have the question of how certain nations became extinct
OK, Chernobyl was a complete different pair of shoes...the Soviet Union was plagued by incompetance and corruption...that is right and that was the reason, Chernobyl blew up....it was a test on the back up system, where they found out, that that system was defective..surprise!
Communism is a bad system and it hampered their performance..yet we have to admit, that during the cold war, the US faced similar problems: the rushing into service of the USS Scorpion for instance...which led to the sinking of the boat and the loss of all of her crew...
K19 of the Russian navy: same thing, nearly led to her loss, yet the crew ingeniously got the situation under control...real heros, yet never acknowleged for it.
The Tsar bomb was interesting since it mapped out the absolute limit and yes, they were quite surprised by it's power. The US used to conduct their nuclear testing in the Arizona and New Mexico desert until it was mutually agreed to have nuclear testing done underground.
I agree...nuking it out is no option....dirty bombs are a big threat these days though and it's terrorists who might be using them soon.