Drums of War

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What’s a Gbbl?

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Gigabarrel (AKA one billion barrels).

1 barrel = 159L (42 US Gallons)

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Weapon manufacturers are not going to suck themselves.

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I am assuming that is production or reserves, not usage.

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Reserves, I’d expect. Libya ain’t producing much of anything these days.

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Even one “little” nuke will ruin your whole day.

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Is there a particular threshold below which a given missile fails to be a “credible” response to a threat scenario? I’d love to see the chart on that one…

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I bet that chart has Iran on it.

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Full of Bullshit, Thin Ice and Smoke.

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Terrifying since Il Douche will see little reason to not use a low yield nuke. “Why have them if you can’t use them?”

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why do they even bother anymore

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Which is why nuke-control academia is severely freaked out.

They also tend to emphasise the point that it’s “lower-yield” not “low-yield”. Even a baby nuke is still a fucking serious bomb.

BTW:

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See thread:

https://twitter.com/nuclearanthro/status/1069006391237464065?s=21

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The smallest nuke ever made would still flatten Mar A Lago and leave the surrounding area too irradiated to live in

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But without low-yield nukes, how will we ever kill the brain bug?

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