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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (3 children)

All this hysteria over nuclear weapons is overblown. We've known how to build them for 75 years yet there hasn't been a single one detonated on inhabited American soil. They're harmless

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You even dropped a few accidentally and nothing happened! Complete duds these things really

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

WTF?

Unless that was sarcasm that I missed... 100's of weapons have been tested on US soil..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

inhabited

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean.

The US was inhabited last I checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure no human lived at the Trinity test site or anywhere else in the test sites where weapons were detonated, especially at the moment of detonation. And I'm pretty sure none have since moved onto those sites either. Hence "inhabited". It's not like we nuked cities and towns.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Right... Gotcha. So you're a 'change the goalposts to keep making me right as the argument and evidence changes' kinda person.

No point engaging with your type.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds like you're the goalposts-mover here, shipmate, and it seems the rest of the readers here agree with me. Maybe this place ain't your venue.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but not all people live on American soil...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It's the American tradition to ignore that