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“It’s a Chinese satellite that is measuring pollutants, among other things,” said University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy’s Roy Gal. “It has many different instruments on it … Some kind of topographical mapping or they’re also used for measuring stuff in Earth’s atmosphere, and I think that’s what it is, environmental measurement satellite.”
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What the hell are you beaming Hawaii for? Get your ass to Ohio for heaven’s sake.
 
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If you are really sadistic, you don’t really need to glass major cities to collapse nations. If you study a map and look at how many nukes it would take to irradiate the vast majority of the drinking water of the world’s biggest countries, the number might be a lot lower than you think.

I also find all the peepee measuring contest with warhead numbers juvenile and largely irrelevant. It’s not how many warheads you have that matter, but rather how many and how reliably you can delivery them on target. The latter is where China’s nuclear modernisation focus lies, and for good reason. It doesn’t matter if you have a thousand warheads in storage if you cannot hit the enemy with any of them.

That’s not to say 300 warheads is enough for a country like China. But I think that 300 number was always just something someone pulled out of their ass in terms of a ballpark estimate and has never been seriously updated since it served the interests of both sides.
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The cold war was madness in many aspects. In the 1980s both sides were deploying 45,000 tac nukes combined. What madness. I guess that was why they loved the idea. After you had spent so many resources, it is hard to say "You know what, I think these stuff are useless". It is career suicide for whoever says it. The number of strategic nukes was driven by the fear of counterforce. I find it understandable considering the technology of the day.

Though the US was more cool-headed compared to the Soviets. They were decreasing the size of their arsenal while the Soviets were adding numbers. They saw there is no chance the Soviets would be able to kill enough launchers fast enough. They also placed less and less emphasis on tac nukes as years passed. That's why they loved nuclear arty shells. It was cheap.

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