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I will never cease to be amazed by the very nuanced way Chinese propaganda movies portray the US Army pic.twitter.com/h16LmwLQaA
— AustroKraut 🇦🇹 (@Kraut73931587) October 13, 2022
I will never cease to be amazed by the very nuanced way Chinese propaganda movies portray the US Army pic.twitter.com/h16LmwLQaA
— AustroKraut 🇦🇹 (@Kraut73931587) October 13, 2022
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That guy was an old school warchad. How crazy was his original idea.
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I don't know where he got the idea that this would be feasible. I guess there was so much secrecy around nuclear weapons at the time that even he wasn't cleared to know how they actually work.
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Honestly, good idea. I admire this for outside the box thinking.
I would prefer a belt of nuclear explosion or fallout to encircle the country of my enemy though. Lay waste to all the land and irradiate it better than cobalt does. This could possibly be done while minimizing loss of life also, the collar need not pass through any settlements. 60 years is not so long if you think about it, and the enemy could find ways to clear avenues past the cobalt anyway.
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The problem is that for something radioactive to emit radiation, it has to decay. And that means it doesn't exist anymore. So you can have something that emits lots of lethal radiation for a short time, like a few weeks, or you can have something that's a nuisance for a long time. And in late 1950 there were three places on Earth that could produce nuclear material: Hanford, Oak Ridge, and the place in Russia. All of them were extremely busy building bombs. So MacArthur's idea is just bizarre.
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Look. He didn't have all the right information in his hands at the time, but his heart was in the right place. Radioactive cobalt for the win.
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MacArthur was a gleeful apocalyptic psychopath who blocked another officer’s Medal of Honor nomination because he was a POW in Japan, but goddarnit he was OUR psychopath
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Is that Uncle Junior?
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Sharp as a frickin' cue ball
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