US To Resume Nuclear Testing

On his flight back from Korea, Trump posted on Truth, that he's ordering the War Department to resume nuclear testing, saying that during previous term, 1) the US accumulated the largest number of nuclear weapons, but it's time for us to resume testing because 2) other nations are doing it.

Both claims are false. The only nation that has been regularly testing in the past quarter century is North Korea, and its last explosive test was in September 2017, and that was after he and Kim fell in love.

Moscow has not conducted a test in 35 years, in the last days of the Soviet Union. To be fair though, Trump, may be confusing Russia’s recent declaration that it had tested two exotic delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons, with actual nuclear detonations tests.

Easy mistake to make due to his mental decline, and the absence of the safe guards that existed during his first term.

So they will carry out his orders, without questioning them, and the AG Barbie will jail or deport anyone who question them.

He does know that that nuclear weapons go "kaboom", and we no longer need to test them, right?

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ElwoodBlues · M

The most powerful supercomputer in the world is called El Capitan. It has a benchmarked performance of 1.742 exaFLOPS (quintillion (10^18) 64-bit floating-point operations per second) and a theoretical peak performance of 2.79 exaFLOPS.

El Capitan is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), El Capitan is used for the Stockpile Stewardship Program to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without underground testing.

And that's why we don't bother with underground testing. A nuclear detonation happens with a bomb of a particular age in a specific environment, and we can't test in the actual open air environment where they'd be deployed, so the simulation, including age compensation, is more informative than an underground test.

BTW, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee is the site of Frontier, benched at a mere 1.102 exaFLOPS. Until El Cap, Frontier was the world's fastest supercomputer. Frontier was also used and is probably still used for nuclear simulation.

And those two locations LLNL & ORNL have always, for the past several decades, been the site of one of the world's fasted supercomputers. Because simulation has been essential to our nuclear deterrent for decades.

Northwest · M

@ElwoodBlues France blackmailed us, by threatening to continue testing if we don't give them access to the simulations. We did.

Jayciedubb · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues yes. I was a foreman plumber on that job. It was called the Terascale (sp?) Simulation Facility. Right across the cooling pond from the NIF project , which was the world's largest laser at the time. That's been online for over 20 years now. It was about the size of two football fields three stories high. So like six football fields from what I recall. But yeah, the main chiller lines to keep all that stuff cool are 22"ø all welded pipe

DrWatson · 70-79, M

"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately," Trump posted.

Reuters makes the following observation: No nuclear power - other than North Korea most recently in 2017 - has carried out explosive nuclear testing in over 25 years.

So I am not sure what "on an equal basis" means.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

It will take longer to build the facility than he has time in office. 3 years minimum.

Straight from CBS Roundup, just now.

SomeMichGuy · M

What he knows about anything honest wouldn't take all of a notepad from a Cracker Jack prize.

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