At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom. Literally everything is covered in dick stuff. Source: 30+ years of using public restrooms as a male.

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If a nuclear missile is launched at the United States the President has just 6 minutes to come to terms with that and decide to launch a counter attack.

    If that counter attack is headed to North Korea, any land based missiles will head over the arctic circle, over Russian airspace where similar shoot/no shoot decisions will have to be made in the same amount of time.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s an anecdote about a U2 naming a song “One Minute Warning” if I recall correctly: many years ago, when a UK prime minister learned the US got 6 minutes, they asked how long the UK would have. The response: “I suppose we’d have about a minute.”

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Basically why it’s called MAD (mutually assured destruction). You’ll either get the first shot for free, or everyone kills everyone.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If a nuclear missile is launched at the United States the President has just 6 minutes to come to terms with that and decide to launch a counter attack or not.

      US nuclear deterrence in 2024 doesn’t rely on launch-on-warning, but on the expectation that no hostile power has the ability to locate and destroy the US ballistic missile fleet prior to them performing their counterlaunches.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike

      In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country’s assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear retaliation against the attacker. To have such an ability (and to convince an opponent of its viability) is considered vital in nuclear deterrence, as otherwise the other side might attempt to try to win a nuclear war in one massive first strike against its opponent’s own nuclear forces.

      Submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the traditional, but very expensive, method of providing a second strike capability, though they need to be supported by a reliable method of identifying who the attacker is.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning

      Launch on warning (LOW), or fire on warning, is a strategy of nuclear weapon retaliation where a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of enemy nuclear attack and while its missiles are still in the air, before detonation occurs.

      In 1997, a US official stated that the US had the technical capability for launch on warning but did not intend to use a launch on warning posture and that the position had not changed in the 1997 presidential decision directive on nuclear weapon doctrine.

      This is also true of the French and British nuclear deterrents, FWIW – the British don’t even maintain a nuclear arsenal other than on subs, so they haven’t even bothered with maintaining the option to do so, and the French only use tactical ALCMs in addition to the strategic sub-launched weapons.

      • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        "Put yourself under the command of the United States, if it is still there"

        JFC nuclear weapons are horrifying

        • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Here’s a tad bit of reassurance: We don’t have enough nukes to kill every human. Just most of them. We can’t eliminate all of us even if we wanted to :)

          • spookex@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Also, I’d say that odds also favour places that nobody really gives a shit about, like sure, US, UK, China, Russia, large parts of Europe, and North Korea are probably guaranteed to be nuclear craters, but I doubt that any of the missiles are pointed at Africa or most of South America

    • bluGill@fedia.io
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      4 months ago

      That is why subs with nukes are hidding someplace. If the president is wrong and now the us doesn’t exist the captan will finish ending the world

      russia has the same

      • r00ty@kbin.life
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        4 months ago

        Most nuclear enabled countries have nuclear subs. I believe here in the UK our entire nuclear deterrent is based on trident missiles fired from submarines.

        • bluGill@fedia.io
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          4 months ago

          You are probably right, russia is just the only other country I’m sure of.