Oh one interesting thing about the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba test was that the airplane that dropped it lost like a kilometer of altitude after the bomb went off and the heat and shockwave hit them. The pilot of the aircraft was so pissed off that he quit the military (retired?) like a week or two after the test. Like I said had they gone with 100 megatons instead of changing it to 50 megatons at the last minute I think itâ(TM)s highly likely that the plane and crew would have been lost. Use the nuke map website and see what a 100 or even 50 megaton blast radius looks like and itâ(TM)s insane. Even crazier is the fallout itâ(TM)s unbelievable if it was a ground level blast (the Tsar Bomba test was an air burst) the fallout would have been really bad. Itâ(TM)s also scary too on a different note I had heard rumors that the Russian Poseidon weapon could be âoesaltedâ where a cobalt shell is added to the weapon and when it detonated it is converted into cobalt 60 which is intensely radioactive and given the tsunami the Poseidon would cause all that contamination would render a huge chunk of land very uninhabitable for a century. When I say uninhabitable I donâ(TM)t mean like Chernobyl I mean like stay there for a few hours or a day and youâ(TM)ll die kind of uninhabitable. Salted nukes are truly evil I hope no one ever builds one. Ok Iâ(TM)m done with my tangent ranting but I hope someone finds what Iâ(TM)ve posted interesting I know I do

Sorry about all those stupid TM marks in my post I donâ(TM)t know why it does that the slashdot site should replace any apply specific characters with generic â characters automatically. I tend to write my replies in the notes app and then paste them in which must be why those characters appeared. Guess Iâ(TM)ll just remove all the apostrophes going forward

I donâ(TM)t know where you got the figure of there be about 10,000 warheads on earth each averaging 5-10 megatons. I wrote all this before realizing someone else already commented on this but I think I can elaborate a lot more on it because I have watched lots of documentaries on the subject of nuclear weapons. Yes there are about 10k warheads but they are not 5-10 megatons on average. The correct range is approximately 1 to 1000 kilotons or .001 to 1 megaton. The biggest nuke in the US arsenal until itâ(TM)s retirement recently (or thatâ(TM)s in the progress of retirement not sure) was the B83 and that was 1.2 megatons or 1200 kilotons. During the Cold War they built bigger and bigger bombs only to eventually realize that a greater number of much smaller more accurate bombs was better. It also allowed the bombs to be miniaturized and then they could pack more of them and more decoy targets into missiles. Thatâ(TM)s why ICBMâ(TM)s will have warheads of 150/250/500/800 kilotons something like that. Nukes are very powerful I really want to walk down the center of the two rows of missile tubes on an Ohio class submarine and just close my eyes and the feel destruction such a sub could unleash. Itâ(TM)s truly kind boggling the level of fire power a ballistic missile submarine can dish out. Here is some interesting facts on nukes, I really like this topic find it interesting. Russia is supposedly building the Poseidon and that is 50-100 megatons or so they claim, I even saw 200 megatons at one point. That is an outlier though because the bomb is huge and really only viable as an underwater system to park the bomb off shore (Poseidon). The biggest nuke to have ever gone off was the Tsar bomba by the USSR and that was 50 megatons. It was actually supposed to he 100 megatons but at the last minute one of the head scientist guys changed the yield over fears of fallout and what would happen and itâ(TM)s really good he did that. The biggest US test was 15 megatons in the Castle Bravo test and that was actually an unintended catastrophic accident. It was supposed to be 5 megatons but the lithium fusion fuel was a mix of two isotopes to save on costs as the isotope for fusion was expensive. They thought that 70% of this lithium mix was inert but what happened was that it converted into fuel for the fusion reaction when the bomb went off thus tripling the power of the bomb

Gotta love these comments from the dedicated CCP shills. Modern China ruled by the CCP isnâ(TM)t going anywhere itâ(TM)s littered with corruption and they are absolutely morally bankrupt due to what the communist government has done to its people. Their population will soon peak and then rapidly age. Immigration isnâ(TM)t a solution for them as foreigners can never be seen as Chinese like an immigrant in the US can be seen as American. So China is at its peak or close to it. They claim to be so technologically advanced but they canâ(TM)t produce any high end or cutting edge chips. Thatâ(TM)s why they supposedly want to invade Taiwan because that is their only hope of ever becoming top dog in the semiconductor industry. And the truth is that if they invade theyâ(TM)ll lose anyway, because the US will evacuate all the engineers and any really valuable equipment if possible from the water fabs. Then if China does manage to take over theyâ(TM)ll just carpet bomb whatâ(TM)s left of the fabs and bam just like that the US would be forever on top of advanced chips both in talent and facilities for decades afterward if not longer. Long ago China was the most powerful country, but that society was moral and honest and wasnâ(TM)t ruled by the CCP aka a band of gangsters. I think India is going to dominate China in the long run they have a huge population and guess whatâ¦..they are all pretty much young under 30. China on the other hand wonâ(TM)t have workers unless they setup assembly lines in retirement homes, but thatâ(TM)s not beyond the realm of possibility in communist China I guess. Modern China is a house of cardsâ¦â¦..donâ(TM)t buy the propaganda they shovel.

You are very wrong about adderall not being particularly addictive. In high school I took a 30mg XR capsule for the first time and my brain lit up like a Christmas tree I was convinced that if I got a prescription I would be the person to come up with the next E=mc^2 level breakthrough. I then pursued a prescription and within a few months I had it. Fast forward a couple more years i was off at college and I went head first into drugs trying one after another and then when I had tried them all I began mixing them in ridiculous amounts to the point where hospital staff concluded I was trying to kill myself. The only drugs I havenâ(TM)t done are PCP and crack. I went through rehab 3 times over the next 5 years, in my final rehab it was for kids from 12 up to 25. I was a year or two away from being too old. In the rehab the doctors flat out told us that nearly every kid coming through the door was prescribed amphetamines or stimulants of some kind. Iâ(TM)m talking like 2/3rds of the patients. And most of them were there for severe psychosis from weed (weed is not harmless, I used to believe this but itâ(TM)s 100% wrong). In people that are predisposed to it, these drugs such as Adderall prime the brain and lead to a vicious cycle of dosage increasing all the while severe addiction sets in. Many can take the drug without issues but many also get addicted to if. Even if you donâ(TM)t take insane doses people become convinced that they canâ(TM)t do anything without adderall. I know that adderall lit the fuse that nearly killed me. All because I thought it would help me do better. Once I have kids I will absolutely never let them take stimulants like this. I would rather home school them and find a way to drain their hyperactivity naturally without drugs by having maybe an intense recess every 90min. Modern society wants the quick fix. My brother really did have ADHD and adderall helped him too. But after 5 years of it he was convinced that he couldnâ(TM)t even do the laundry without adderall. Thatâ(TM)s sad, and now heâ(TM)s to the point that he thinks he cannot succeed in life without it. I have been totally sober for many years now and donâ(TM)t drink, aside from nicotine/vaping but Iâ(TM)m fine with that. I have a great job as a software engineer and am thankful that I got through it alive. I also have a a much greater understanding and appreciation of whatâ(TM)s important in life mainly family and close friends.