Yes, because it technically doesn’t qualify as a nuclear weapon. (yes I know, I know, let it go.) Secondly, at the time they really only paid lip service to the NPT.
Feel happy, they spent more on the Kinetic Weapons Program. But don’t worry, Obama is gonna change that whole military industrial complex system and fix it up right good I tell ya whut.
nuke ’em till they glow, then shoot them in the dark. Obama will not rid the world of nukes cause we’re too smart to get rid of them. we’ll just say we did, and first time anyone tries using one. . .
@...Puulaahi:
What if the plastic of the pen is vaporized and the metal is turned into slag? @...frightfulfish:
Oakridge? OOM PAPA OOM PAPA OOM PAPA MOW MOW
@...garbledxmission: Those I’d like to see a chart on…and yet, wouldn’t they also violate a no-weapons-in-space treaty, or does that only cover nukes as well?
There really isn’t much point in these… conventional bombs have gotten to the point where they can do pretty much anything these can, using smart fuzes (void sensing and the like) laser-guiding, GPS, etc, and there’s no fallout (nuclear or political) to worry about.
@...njch412: Yet with all that amazing nuclear technology we have, we can’t do jack shit to North Korea unless we’re prepared to accept that 90% of South Korea and who knows what percent of Japan will face a conventional missile wrath that will destroy their civilian and military populations and lead to an international climate where America will never again have any international trust.
Yep, good old 1950s thinking, “we have nukes, so everyone else is behind the 8-ball.”
@...deuce: Yeah, but nukes or not-nukes, bunker busting is a dead-end game. Trying to use explosives to get past hundreds of feat of dirt and then into hardened concrete (if you have perfect intelligence knowing where to bomb), is a losing proposition.
Who needs bunker nukes when you could flash it with the SOL platforms from Akira or the Zeus Cannon from FF:SW. Good pure, clean, photons. Reagan’s space based weapons FTW!
So, basically this is an underground Nuke?
Means even if you are 1000ft underground, you are 100% royally fucked.
More technology = More problems.
Not if that problem is irradicating an uncontrolled North Korea. (Not saying we need nukes to handle N. Korea)
I like the “dial-a-yield” feature. One guy gets just a biiiiiiit overzealous means extra fun.
just what we need. More radioactive diarrhea on this fucked up planet. FUCK YOU military industrial complex FUCK YOu
Orbital Tungsten kinetic weapons will make these and nukes obsolete.
So we were developing this after we signed the NPT?
Yes, because it technically doesn’t qualify as a nuclear weapon. (yes I know, I know, let it go.) Secondly, at the time they really only paid lip service to the NPT.
I’m glad we spent billions on this.
Maybe we can use it on the caves in Afghanistan.
Feel happy, they spent more on the Kinetic Weapons Program. But don’t worry, Obama is gonna change that whole military industrial complex system and fix it up right good I tell ya whut.
I really want a pen that looks exactly like that.
with or without the fallout?
The pen is mightier than the thermal nuclear device.
That’s “newkewlurrr” to you dammit!
@...garbledxmission: But I like the ring of: Global Thermal Nuclear War.
@...sylvanish: HOLY SHIT YOU ARE BACK
@...thelotuseater725: shhh, don’t tell no one
nuke ’em till they glow, then shoot them in the dark. Obama will not rid the world of nukes cause we’re too smart to get rid of them. we’ll just say we did, and first time anyone tries using one. . .
special delivery from Oak Ridge
@...Puulaahi:
What if the plastic of the pen is vaporized and the metal is turned into slag?
@...frightfulfish:
Oakridge? OOM PAPA OOM PAPA OOM PAPA MOW MOW
bye bye arabs
@...garbledxmission: Those I’d like to see a chart on…and yet, wouldn’t they also violate a no-weapons-in-space treaty, or does that only cover nukes as well?
brb, Google
There really isn’t much point in these… conventional bombs have gotten to the point where they can do pretty much anything these can, using smart fuzes (void sensing and the like) laser-guiding, GPS, etc, and there’s no fallout (nuclear or political) to worry about.
yea, but nukes be awesome.
@...Sticky: (ORNL) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. original site of Plutonium production for our bombs.
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
@...njch412: Yet with all that amazing nuclear technology we have, we can’t do jack shit to North Korea unless we’re prepared to accept that 90% of South Korea and who knows what percent of Japan will face a conventional missile wrath that will destroy their civilian and military populations and lead to an international climate where America will never again have any international trust.
Yep, good old 1950s thinking, “we have nukes, so everyone else is behind the 8-ball.”
@...deuce: Yeah, but nukes or not-nukes, bunker busting is a dead-end game. Trying to use explosives to get past hundreds of feat of dirt and then into hardened concrete (if you have perfect intelligence knowing where to bomb), is a losing proposition.
@...frightfulfish: It’s the word.
Who needs bunker nukes when you could flash it with the SOL platforms from Akira or the Zeus Cannon from FF:SW. Good pure, clean, photons. Reagan’s space based weapons FTW!
@FullofStars
so, is your head firmly wedged up your own delusional fantasy ass, or only on days ending in 9?.
@...garbledxmission: I dunno, what’s today’s date…. Ending in 9? More like odd/even days in “Y”. Why you ask?
Jesus Christ this is a fucked up world.