France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

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    At this point i wouldnt even be that surprised anymore if the US just straight up bombs Paris. The “weak men” creating the “hard times” were the boomers all along…

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          I wait for the day when the Green party in Germany realizes that it is a good idea to restart the nuclear reactors to build nuclear bombs for European safety.

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                You could centrifuge enough Uranium to get mostly U235 in a gun-type design (the Hiroshima bomb) and use that to trigger a larger fusion bomb.

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                  It may be possible but as far as I know the US built nuclear power plants to create plutonium with which they built the fusion bumbs.

                  500 or so warheads would be needed for credible deterrance. Are centrifuges really enough? There is also not much uranium left unless we want to return to Mali who won’t just sell us theirs as long as we oppose Russia.

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                    Yes, the Nagasaki implosion design used Plutonium instead, which requires a reactor.

                    Uranium exists all over the world. Saying there isn’t much left and that Mali is some magical last place where it exists is…not correct.

                    PS: Mali is mostly gold (e.g. Mansa Musa), it is Niger that seems to be a large Uranium producer.

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            The USA has enough nuclear weapons stationed in Germany, you don’t need to start manufacturing more for them, thank you very much.

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              That means if France leaves the EU or becomes far-right, we’re doomed.

              The context is that we can’t rely on the US anymore and maybe soon enough also not on France.

              If we want to bomb the US we obviously don’t get the US bombs for that.