wurst wrote:
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We already recieved his atomic offer. Yes we are scared.
And Putin has to be stopped.
I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I have read that Putin did not replenish the tritium in his nukes within the last 30 years (tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years, and needs to be replaced every 10 years, otherwise the nukes turn into more or less "just" Polish fireworks:
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2020/starve-nuclear-weapons-death-tritium-freeze wrote:
What is the effect of removing tritium from a nuclear warhead? A good example is revealed in unclassified information about the UK's Trident warhead. The full yield of the warhead is about 100 kilotons as designed and deployed. There is a version that only has the fission-stage boosted primary for relatively small engagements. But if the tritium is removed from the fission stage, then the yield drops to only 0.3 kt. Although 0.3 kt is not total disarmament, it is small enough to be militarily insignificant, especially when launched from a multibillion-dollar platform: a Trident submarine. Simply put, modern nuclear weapons without tritium are not military weapons.
The only nukes that might have gotten tritum replenishment are those in the Russian submarine fleet. But those are said to be monitored completely and kept in check by individual US submarine hunters (or similar vessels).
Hmmmmm .....
Pirat, retired 5-star Armchair General ;)
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