I wonder how long until some power - Russians, Germans, Ottomans etc - decides that the British Isles are too dangerous to leave as they are, and just carpet-nukes them, or sprays them with some persistent deadly chemicals from coast to coast. Even if just the cities and towns are thoroughly...
It can get worse.
Here is how it looks when a tank with full set of ammo is hit in the autoloader
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tank-explosion-video-ukraine-1706217
(Russian tank near Mariupol, May 2022) The black dot rising into the sky is the turret...
No idea how you would try to argue that because economically competitive nuclear generation is a 1980s state of the art.
Building power reactors is significantly easier than building bombs. With 10 more years of civilian R&D and without a WW2 you would get civilian reactors generating heat and...
One could theoretically use dense smoke as an offensive weapon, using bombards throwing smoke shells into the middle of enemy formation to confuse the enemy and break up the formation or at least the coordination with the units as early in the course of the battle as possible.
After the 1960s GDR required massive external subsidies to keep at least that standard of living going at all. The subsidies came both from the Soviets (who wanted a nice showcase to the West) and by the West Germany (who wanted to avoid a financial collapse of GDR with unpredictable...
Yes, just reading their ongoing Q&A stream in Telegram… very interesting and explains a lot. I was not aware of Ponomaryovs past until now but it makes sense. They had a very interesting series of reports on events and situation in Donbass leading up to the separatists taking over, unfortunately...
Even if the nuclear part of the bomb does not go off, just the conventional explosive lenses in the bomb are enough to tear some bystanders into shreds.
Basically the GDR used different methods of oppression than your typical dictatorship. They have, at some times, had recruited several % of the entire population to report to Stasi on their neighbours and friends. Many did not actually report anything useful, but you never knew; the idea was to...
Not ISW, I am talking about the telegram channel "Ukraine War Report", they recently renamed themselves - if my memory has it right.
https://t.me/RealWarReport
May also have been a link in one of the Ukraine reddits.
If I may ask, why is it so important?
I was just jumping from link to link on various Telegram channels. I believe it was linked to in Ukraine War Report.
The description sounded interesting so I took a look.
He is basically radically de-regulating and reducing the tax burden to get to the other side of the Laffer curve. IRL this has never been tried to the same extent as that would go against too many entrenched interests so it remains theoretical.
You might be mixing up overall uranium content in an ore and U-235 content in natural uranium. The latter is 0,7% everywhere in the world, including Canada. The former obviously varies and there are some rocks in Canada with 5-8% uranium indeed. The enrichment level refers to the U-235 content...