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RE: The Nuclear Hoax: Some Reasons Why I Don't Believe Nuclear Weapons Exist

in #nuclear4 years ago

Well done for going to the effort of making this post, but here's why I think you're wrong.

Conventional detonations and nuclear detonations are very easily distinguishable. Nuclear weapon cores reach temperatures of tens of millions of kelvin. Conventional explosives reach temperatures of thousands of degrees.
This extreme temperature results in extreme luminescence. Nuclear detonations get far brighter than conventional explosives. There's no way the footage we see of nuclear tests could be of conventional explosives.

Could you elaborate on these specification and technical hurdles that you believe to make nuclear bombs "unlikely"?

Plutonium isn't the only fissile material. Uranium, a natural and well characterised material (some of which is sat a few meters away from me as I type) can also be used for nuclear weapons.

Just because something is amazing, doesn't mean it's fake.

What improbably properties of plutonium are you referring to, and how on what are you basing the idea that they're "improbable" on?

With regards to shielding of nuclear powered spacecraft, there are two types of spacebourn nuclear energy sources. One is a true reactor, which isn't activated while workers are working on it on the ground, and so produces next to no radiological risk. The other is the Pu-238 based radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
Pu-238 decays via the alpha mode. Alpha particles are stopped by the outermost dead layer of skin.
As long as it is not inhaled, it produces no real health risk.

On what basis are you dismissing the evidence of Soviet nuclear explosives and ballistic missiles as not credible?
There's plenty of footage of them online. Both parading and test launching.

How could you produce an unedited video of a missile launching from one continent to another?
The missile travels beyond the horizon, placing it firmly out of the view of a ground camera.
And as for placing a camera on the warhead, re-entry produces high temperatures that requires a heat shield. A go-pro bolted onto the side of the warhead would become vapour pretty quickly.

"The dimensions and weights of the bombs are not consistent with photos showing bombs being suspended or transported without expected heavy duty hardware."
Can you link these photos?

Just because a video shows multiple shots cut together, that doesn't mean it's not real.

"The many of the proposed human effects of these nuclear bombings have not been independently verified but have been under strict military control."
Where did you hear that?

Not true, there has been at least one case in which radionuclides were detected by members of the public in the US following a nuclear test.
IIRC, it was a geiger counter at a school following an Upshot-Knothole test.

"Museum artifacts at the Hiroshima museum contain features easily forged with claims not independently verified."
Such as?

"Photographs of Hiroshima match the characteristics of conventional firebombing when compared to cities like Tokyo. Hiroshima lacks any characteristics that would be unique to a claimed nuclear bombing."
Hiroshima shadows.

"The lack of any nuclear detonations at the hands of enemy nations or terrorists (even accidentally) supports the notion that nukes do not exist."
The Soviet union produced hundreds of nuclear tests.

The safety of the top layers of spent fuel pools is not inconsistent with the supposed hazards of spent fuel.

"Color footage of supposed nuclear test detonations are also inconsistent with the temperatures purported to be involved. With temperatures identical to that of the sun, we shouldn't be seeing dirty orange fire and black smoke, which is more characteristic of things like TNT or napalm."
The first flash is brilliant white. Following this, the fireball cools to emit longer wavelength radiatiom.

"The idea that mushroom clouds are unique to nuclear blasts is also a complete myth."
Yes, it's a myth believed by some who don't know any better. This isn't evidence that nuclear weapons don't exist.