For a not-very-strategic, non-military person, my subconscious apparently spends a lot of time pondering this.
It's a bit environmentally unavoidable at the moment.
(I have now had multiple arguments with people in person and online about the state of Nazi nuclear weapons development, otherwise known as the all-star team of Heisenberg and some heavy water. I don't know why that is the hill people choose to die on—I mean, I suspect it's because most of them are American and it assuages the guilt of our successful use of nuclear force if it's framed as an arms race rather than a terror weapon—but man, they do.)
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Date: 2020-11-05 09:05 pm (UTC)From:It's a bit environmentally unavoidable at the moment.
(I have now had multiple arguments with people in person and online about the state of Nazi nuclear weapons development, otherwise known as the all-star team of Heisenberg and some heavy water. I don't know why that is the hill people choose to die on—I mean, I suspect it's because most of them are American and it assuages the guilt of our successful use of nuclear force if it's framed as an arms race rather than a terror weapon—but man, they do.)