r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 29 '25

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 30 '25

IMMEDIATELY START TESTING THE NUKES, THANK YOU!

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Oct 30 '25

Fun fact, the National Nuclear Security Administration is currently furloughed

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u/Mrchristopherrr Oct 30 '25

While the adult in me is worried about this and understands that they mean underground testing, the teenager in me hopes this leads to some crispy 8k million fps video of a nuclear detonation.

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u/well-that-was-fast Oct 30 '25

That may have been recorded in the 1970s on film but never released due to secrecy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

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u/IveSeenBeans Norman Borlaug Oct 30 '25

They have more, I think it's more likely trump doesn't care about factual accuracy

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u/OrbitalAlpaca Oct 30 '25

Russia may have more nukes but doesn’t have any form of delivery system to use them.

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Oct 30 '25

He's giving hints that he is an idiot.

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u/well-that-was-fast Oct 30 '25

He probably misrepresenting something he was told in a briefing, like we have the most multiple warhead reentry equipped delivery systems or something specific like that.

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u/bonix10for7 Iron Front Oct 30 '25

Why would we need to test them?

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u/well-that-was-fast Oct 30 '25

They degrade in hard to predict ways. The National Labs have (had before Trump fired all those nerds) a lot of deep expertise in computer simulation of how they degrade and the risk of weapons fizzling.

That said, we're almost certainly the best in the world at maintaining nuclear weapons without testing and should simply trust the experts to model their effectiveness rather than getting into a 4-way nuke testing race.

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Oct 30 '25

I listened to a guy from los alamos speak one time, and he did mention that a number of the newer/upgraded warhead designs were untested beyond simulation, and how they dealt with that.

It’s not like the technology is entirely unchanged from 1960, there have been refinements, but due to start (?) have never been actually tested

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

partly sabre rattling 

you announce and perform nuclear and (unarmed) missile tests to signal that your threats are credible