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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Potato Fries of Nuclear Weapons
There's a little bit of a misconception, i think, about tactical nuclear weapons. One thing tha you sometimes hear people say, as they talk about low yield bunker busters, not a thing. Bunker busters are high yield. When the us. Was looking at making a new bunker buster in the bush administration, one of the bombs under consideration was a mega ton in yield. And that would have been, in some sense, tactical, but itwouldhave bee enormous. I'm deeply sceptical of the american argument, because it seems like something you invent in grad school more than it is anything i can see tied to the russians. So i don't really know
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