After watching Oppenheimer the other week, I just rewatched Dr Strangelove.
For the love of god, will one of the nuclear powers announce it’s destroying its hydrogen bombs? These things are psychotically evil. Just get rid of them. Now, before the kill us all.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Sarah Brown • •“This film is fiction. Any resemblance to Curtis LeMay, Werner Von Braun, or Edward Teller is strictly unintentional”
Teller - thought he could save the world by holding a perpetual knife to its throat.
Von Braun - wanted to build spaceships and didn’t care who got hurt (as opposed to his modern day disciple, Musk, who would quite like lots of people to get hurt, I feel).
LeMay - actually thought he could win World War III.
Mark vW
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Carl
in reply to Mark vW • • •'Vonce ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down... Zat's not my department' says Wernher Von Braun.
Gen X-Wing
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I’m still surprised they didn’t include von Braun, since without him one of the bomb types wouldn’t have worked.
He also by far the smartest.
And he also had batshit crazy ideas at times. Apparently he coined Mutually Assured Destruction and found the abbreviation funny.
Tim Reed
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Rachel Lawson
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Ed Davies
in reply to Rachel Lawson • • •@rachel Another: South Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
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South African nuclear weapons program
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Rachel Lawson
in reply to Ed Davies • • •Ed Davies
in reply to Rachel Lawson • • •@rachel AIUI, the South African ones were constructed but were (probably) never tested. But then the Hiroshima bomb, a similar gun type, was not tested before use either.
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