Were Nuclear weapons really nothing but a Psy-Op? 🤔
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Your "alternatives" are mostly fiction. AI is overblown and comes in all shapes and sizes. Autonomous systems have been in development for the past 40 years. DEWs (high-energy lasers) only exist today at tactical levels and are fair-weather weapons only. HAARP is not a weapon at all. We have no weapons used from space (at least, not yet; I formerly designed them). Nuclear weapons will never be eliminated, because their power is essential to national defense. It would be like un-inventing gunpowder.
I'm not going to argue with you as you sound like you know what you're writing about. I'm just trying to make sense of it all. I try to keep an open mind. I assume since you are familiar with HAARP, AI, DEWS and Nuclear weapons, I have one question. If nukes are real how is it we're all not dead? Thousands of nukes have been detonated around the world in tests. How is it the pacific ocean isn't a soupy mess of radioactive poison? Or the American southwest? Or Chernobyl? The last I read was that plants and wildlife are able to survive and thrive there. Japan rebuilt Nagasaki and Hiroshima right where the bombs were dropped. wouldn't the radioactive waste make it unlivable for decades? Still trying to figure it all out.
Why should we all be dead? For one thing, most of those "thousands" (do you have the real number?) were underground, self-containing. For another thing, the perils of radioactive fallout are real---but within limits. Look at the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I believe in one of the cities, they had the streetcars operational again after a week or so. The worst radioactivity dies down in about a week. The longer-term radioactivity is weak. The natural world is inherently radioactive: carbon-14, potassium-40. People go on about radioactive material being so for thousands of years, but the reality is that it is only a finite time before it fades to background level. There is even one theory that a background level of radioactivity is a good thing for our health, because it keeps the body's repair mechanisms on notice and active.
The ocean already contains about a ton of dissolved naturally-occurring uranium per cubic kilometer of seawater. Maybe more if you add in the distribution of other radioactive elements. Much of the American southwest is a mile high, and receives maybe as much radiation from outer space (cosmic rays) than from ground radioactivity from the granite mountains. (Granite tabletops are famously radioactive. They used to say it was from the pitchblende inclusions, but I've also read from potassium-40.)
Chernobyl is a sad story of improvident design and poor operational handling. It resulted in the reactor breaching and catching fire (the moderator material was graphite), thus spreading fission products widely by air. The stories are mixed. I've read that the initial panic was overblown by comparison to the eventual reality. As for resettlement, the Soviet Union was more used to simply striking of a region as forbidden and moving on to new territory. There was a similar event at Windscale in the UK, decades previous, but now forgotten.
My dad walked around Nagasaki maybe within a week or so of its bombing. The family joke was that me and my brothers are all mutants (not).
The bible on nuclear weapons effects is "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" by Glasstone and Dolan (1977). Here's the Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/Effects-Nuclear-Weapons-Authoritative-Explosions/dp/1422050645 Very interesting reading. Even if you don't understand all of it, but take it on its word, you will wind up knowing a lot more than you started with.