Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Hades said:
At the start of the war Putin gathered his leaders around and asked each to announce their support for the war. There was one senior person that was clearly terrified and made to look stupid by him. I can't recall his name but it was a clip going around at the time. I wonder whatever happened to him?
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He's still alive and presumably in his role, he just has a phobia of stairs and refuses to go near windows

www.independent.co.uk

Pro-Kremlin commentators criticise Gorbachev’s legacy of ‘instability’

‘We are still correcting his mistakes,’ says one Russian parliamentarian
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Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, expressed his condolences but said the country was still dealing with the consequences of Gorbachev's “perestroika” reforms.


“It fell to Gorbachev to lead the country in a very difficult period, to face many external and internal challenges, for which an adequate response was not found,” he said.
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Brilliant. So 'liberate' area's... when you lose, try to call them part of your own country so that you can attempt to 'legally' (???) use tactical nukes. WTH is going on in the world. Dude is nuts.
 
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omnomnom said:
Tactical nukes...what kind of damage would these potentially do long term with radiation etc?
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Difficult to say as there is a range to the size of such weapons and how they'd be used (airburst vs groundburst, etc.). A small number of small to medium yield tactical nukes at a global scale wouldn't be any different to the nuclear tests done so far outside of a few dozen miles around the site.

EDIT: In some circumstances though if used in a city environment they could produce significant fallout in that region - less than Chernobyl but still a serious problem.

The political/military ramifications of their use though is a different level of damage.
 
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Thing of land mines that you can't clear for 12 months and nothing to eat from the land for decades.

They won't be used though. Russia would be cut off from the world in a instant. It would make being a friend very difficult and Israel would flatten Iran.
 
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Tactical nukes are defined as anything upto 170 kilotons (e.g. over 11 Hiroshimas which doesn't sound like a small nuke!)

On nuke map if you used a modern 150kt tactical nuke such as something delivered from a cruise missle on Kyiv the blast would make it about half way to bucha as a rough estimate of scale with around 100-200k fatalities.
 
CaneyJ said:
Tactical nukes are defined as anything upto 170 kilotons (e.g. over 11 Hiroshimas which doesn't sound like a small nuke!)

On nuke map if you used a modern 150kt tactical nuke such as something delivered from a cruise missle on Kyiv the blast would make it about half way to bucha as a rough estimate of scale with around 100-200k fatalities.
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Are you sure about that? According to Britannica this is the definition.

"tactical nuclear weapons, small nuclear warheads and delivery systems intended for use on the battlefield or for a limited strike. Less powerful than strategic nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons are intended to devastate enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread destruction and radioactive fallout."
 
Russians being drafted in to fight against battle hardened Ukrainians with NATO weaponry, yeah I don't think most of them will actually like that
 
Rroff said:
Difficult to say as there is a range to the size of such weapons and how they'd be used (airburst vs groundburst, etc.). A small number of small to medium yield tactical nukes at a global scale wouldn't be any different to the nuclear tests done so far outside of a few dozen miles around the site.

EDIT: In some circumstances though if used in a city environment they could produce significant fallout in that region - less than Chernobyl but still a serious problem.

The political/military ramifications of their use though is a different level of damage.
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Tactical nukes might end up being more radioactively harmful than strategic weapons. Many tactical weapons have variable yields - capable of large themonuclear explosions or can be set to down to very low levels. In the high power modes more of the nuclear material is converted to energy - in the lower modes this material is just spread over the blast area where it will need to be removed from the enviroment.
 
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