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mrdown@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

www.9news.com.au

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Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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mrdown@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Why would having it be in a vest be useful, so it’s concealed until you’re really close? Like, it’s a fucking nuke, it’s not like you need to get in particularly close for it to have the intended effect.

    Like, he’s just mashing the image of a suicide bomber in with the fear of nukes to strike as many “panic! danger! scary!” notes as possible.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      A tactical nuke within a nuclear bunker could be useful if you wanted to target people important enough to be in that bunker? Perhaps he had the thought of doing such…

      • Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works
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        so would any explosive device, or chemical agent, or two smaller assassins in a trench coat. If they do go the nuke vest route, I hope they put a bunch of light graphics on it to be really edge lord and scary with it

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    Quick, get Jack Bauer on the case!

  • CannedCairn@lemmy.world
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    I think it has to be a relatively large capsule or spheroid to have any yield. The form factor makes very little sense. A davey crocket is kinda the smallest?

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    you cant make a nuke that small

    backpack? yes. vest? probably not.

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    Every nuke can be considered a suicide bomb. Ffs get this guy out of any kind of position making decisions.

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    Maybe I lack imagination since I would never came to an idea of nuclear vest

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    He should make one and demonstrate how it would work.

  • sveltecider@lemmy.ca
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    They’re just fucking shit

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Why does anyone care what the VP thinks? His job requires him to be hosting a book club or at a state funeral or something.

    • mrdown@lemmy.worldOP
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      It is fun to mock dumb people like him

  • Bieren@lemmy.today
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    But we won the war and obliterated their military and nuclear programs.

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    Oh we’re back from the wilderness scratching at the door to be let back in are we JD?

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    Fun fact: the smallest nuclear bomb was (is?) small enough to carry in a backpack.

    • BiNonBi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Another fun fact: The United States had nuclear suicide teams

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        interesting

    • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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      And Lee Child wrote a Jack Reacher book about it.

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    I heard they’re developing a new Shahed bomb that can blow up a church and rebuild it into a mosque.

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    Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it’s actually funny.

    Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going “Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this.”

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      I mean, people do strap on conventional explosive vests and set them off in crowds. That is not the absurd part.

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