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To: Bruce L who wrote (762233)	5/1/2022 8:11:14 PM
From: greenspirit	3 Recommendations Recommended By D. Long pak73 teevee Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793645

A single D5 missile with multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles can destroy a small country the size of North Korea. A handful would decimate the largest countries. One Trident Submarine can carry 24 of these missiles and launch them in rapid succession with extreme accuracy from thousands of miles away. Nuclear weapons have improved since WWII. The power of a Trident D5 today is unimaginable. An all out nuclear war would probably even kill the cockroaches.

To: Bruce L who wrote (762233)	5/2/2022 9:20:36 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By lightshipsailor MulhollandDrive Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793645

Bruce L, thank you for your kind words WRT the CoViD period. It was a real adventure - to figure out a new virus when no one really knew how it would behave over time. Was fun. Later, the fun became mixed with frustration, as political cross currents overwhelmed reason and rationality. Poo-pooing good medications, refusing to study them in a constructive way… designing studies in a way that they would fail. The masks - if there are any good studies showing that they work - I haven’t seen them. One of my granddaughters - who wasn’t even 4 at the time - was saying that teachers cover their faces because they don’t want people to know what they are saying. I have no problems with masks - but how is it possible to mandate something based on intuitive feeling??. Ditto for vaccines - to mandate experimental vaccines is great abuse. ———— NUKES…. I’m not an expert. Studied the stuff, but that was decades ago. I pick up an article now and then. Checking it now - they say strategic weapons are usually between 100 KT and 1.5 megatons. That’s pretty unimaginable. Moreover, they subdivide the load into multiple warheads, each of which is programmed to do “its own thing” once released. They may do not one, but a couple of dozen Hiroshimas, with the targets scattered over a fairly large geographic area. We don’t know what to expect. Some recent review asserted that if both the US and Russia would use 50% of their warheads, the nuclear winter over the following years would be enough to cut food production by… well, by about 98%. Others think the effect would be more moderate. But who knows. I’d love to know that in 100 - 1000 years people would still be wondering about this. Russia…. Let’s agree on one thing - in a nonjudgmental way - that the Russians see NATO expansion into Ukraine as a great threat. If we do that, it also becomes obvious that for NATO, staying out of Ukraine isn’t such a great deal (unless the Russians are right, and it’s part of a larger effort against them). The argument goes that Ukraine has a right to decide for herself. OK, but it takes 2 to tango - had NATO explained to them that this would never happen, they would accept it - and try to move to a more neutral stand. The extreme nationalists - who the Russians resent so much - would no longer play a central part in their national life. The argument that Russia was out to get them anyway - is based on mind reading and propaganda. Heard that Putin was elected last time with a majority of 54%. It’s an authoritarian system, no doubt about it - but it’s by no means a one man show. I’ll stop here. Sorry that I may have missed something in your previous posts that you considered important.