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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia does not have a nuclear weapon; it's all cyber, and look where we are.
They used an old video to 'prove' they're a threat?
former9thward
(32,028 posts)Thousands of them and they have had them for decades.
babylonsister
(171,074 posts)was cartoonish and from years ago. I think it's a distraction.
brush
(53,792 posts)babylonsister
(171,074 posts)i THINK IT'S ALL A SHOW AND DIStraction. Too little too late.
brush
(53,792 posts)There's tons of documentation of nuke testing in the USSR in the 50s.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and the whole nuclear arms race was a hoax. How they handled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the novel was very clever, as I recall... I remember--it was called *The Jesus Factor*, by Edwin Corley, I think the name was...about 1970. Truth-is-stranger-than-fiction, and all that...
babylonsister
(171,074 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...that deals with an SF theme as well as the pros do...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)And it's never been out of print since it first came out.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)In some other novel written shortly thereafter, there's a subplot involving people who are convinced nuclear bombs never worked and are a hoax. Those people are called Corleyites.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Smack dab on the Mur A Largo.
babylonsister
(171,074 posts)they hate him, too.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Thanks for chasing the text.
moriah
(8,311 posts)Do you require the same of us to prove we still have capabilities?
No, nuclear war isn't their primary focus, you are correct they use mercenaries, both ground and cyber, for most of their dirty work. Don't like to get their hands dirty.
But with Shitler mouthing off about "small nukes" and testing nukes and producing nukes, perhaps someone had to be the (relative) adult and say "No fucking nukes, we don't care how small, or we will take it as you want to play rough".
It's a sad day when a homophobic dictator trying to exercise undue influence in our elections has it somewhat right, but until the pResident is out, we may see more such ironies.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Where one country will make another believe they have a technology they dont. Lots of resources are wasted trying to copy it.