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I would go if they reenacted the test. I am generally a pacifist but a nuclear explosion still must be an awesome sight.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
I would go if they reenacted the test. I am generally a pacifist but a nuclear explosion still must be an awesome sight.
- CamperBob2 8y agoIt would be environmentally problematic to set off nukes as a tourist attraction, but I actually think that will need to be considered at some point. It won't be long before no one alive has seen a nuclear explosion in person, and I don't think that will be a good thing. The same people who currently deny the Apollo landings, evolution, vaccines, Sandy Hook and so forth will move on to "nuke denial." They will argue that no such bomb could ever have been made, and that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were false flags, or some bullshit along similar lines. Or worse, they will argue that nukes are just bigger versions of ordinary bombs, perfectly kosher for use in any scenario that would otherwise justify dropping bombs on the enemy of the day. So an argument could be made that we should light one off in the desert every Fourth of July and sell tickets, just to pre-empt this particular subculture of stupidity.
- mirimir 8y agoThat would indeed be problematic. Because fallout. Maybe there are small tactical devices that would be clean enough, if detonated far enough above the ground. But I doubt it.
- CamperBob2 8y agoFallout is highly controllable, not necessarily that big an issue in an airburst. Keep in mind that the idea is to avoid setting off even more of them in anger. Right now it's considered deeply taboo to drop a nuclear weapon on an enemy. In another generation, a nuclear conflict will be considered drastic but nothing all that horrific. The generation after that will have fewer inhibitions. The generation after that will have fewer members.
- mirimir 8y agoWell, I would enjoy seeing one, I admit. I've often thought that a suitable airburst would be a great climax for large fireworks displays. But then, there's the EMF. Sigh.
- jedberg 8y agoA good idea, but you better invite the Chinese and Russians, or they might get suspicious of our motives.
- droithomme 8y agoIt doesn't really matter that a tiny minority believes that. There's absolutely no legitimate justified need to reenact nuclear detonations with actual nuclear detonations to prove it ever happened to deranged low IQ skeptics. It's OK that we have a handful of deranged low IQ skeptics who have nonsensical beliefs. It's OK to just ignore them. It's not critical or even marginally important that society spend much time seriously addressing the most fringe of their beliefs.
- CamperBob2 8y agoIt doesn't really matter that a tiny minority believes that. I would've agreed with you until relatively recently. Lately, those people seem to gain more political power over the rest of us in every election. I'm not that serious about setting off nukes to educate, impress, or otherwise remind them, though. For one thing, there's absolutely no reason to believe it would work.
- abruzzi 8y agoBack in the 80s they did a couple of approximately 4 kiloton conventional detonations down here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Scale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Scale
- maxxxxx 8y agoI wonder how much such a blast costs. This may be a cool tourist attraction.