Pope condemns possession of nuclear weapons

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Competition for land and resources has been going on for a very long time. The public never hears about CIA operations until something appears in the open literature. Ousting government leaders to install “friendly” ones has also been ongoing. Is it right? No. But national sovereignty only applies to those with the power to keep it.

Threatening other countries is also common.
 
By the way, I do not want to practice in conspiracy theories, but there is a theory that Chernobyl is a deliberate work of human hands, and not just some kind of workers mistakes.

Do not forget that the USSR constantly scared the enemies of the world with a nuclear war.
I remember how in Soviet childhood we learned to put on a gas mask and run in a basement shelter in schools.
 
…and to pull the country that by its soul belongs to the European / Western civilization out of the claws of Russian Bear is also a noble mission…

John Mc Cain really deserved a monument in the city of Kyev. No wonder millions of Ukrainians after he passed into eternity, joined in the social networks to the action- “Thank you John”
 
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Athanasiy said:
By the way, I do not want to practice in conspiracy theories, but there is a theory that Chernobyl is a deliberate work of human hands, and not just some kind of workers mistakes.
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I very much doubt it. The Soviet Union was vain about its image, and Chernobyl was a giant embarrassment. It is still to this day known as the worst nuclear disaster in human history, and it was under their watch. They weren’t above sabotage, but I doubt they’d do it at the cost of their image.
 
Nuclear weapons / nuclear stations in the hands of totalitarian systems are doubly terrible.
After the tragedy in Chernobyl, soviet officials reported that everything they report about situation about explosion is normal, and there is nothing serious.
Only the Legasov proposed to fill the burning reactor with a mixture of boron, lead and dolomitic clay from helicopters. And it was Legasov who insisted on the immediate and complete evacuation of the city of Pripyat’s power engineers.
The radioactive cloud rushed towards Europe as well. The Soviet Union was threatened with multi-million dollar claims. But after the honest and frank report of Legasov at the IAEA expert conference in Vienna, which lasted 5 hours, the attitude towards the USSR softened.

The truth about Chernobyl did not please everyone. Twice he was nominated for the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and both times deleted from the lists.
In general, he did not die his own death, and did not hang himself, I think that the KGB helped him to go to another world.
The KGB traditionally cleaned up too many talking people with car accidents, catastrophes, incomprehensible heart attacks, and alleged suicides.
This skillfull practice is sometimes used to this day.
 
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Not everyone liked the truth about Chernobyl.
There were those who demanded that the author of this 700-page report be brought to justice for disclosing secret data.
Long before the accident, academician Legasov drew attention to the imperfection of RBMK reactors. He said that they are depleted in control systems and diagnostics. That they have a huge potential for chemical energy: a lot of graphite, a lot of zirconium and water. And there are no operator-independent protection systems. At the same time he offered revolutionary solutions, which undermined the foundations of the existing academic structure, but no proper action was taken.

It is true that the doctors identified radiation pancreatitis, radiation disease of the 4th degree, in Valery Legasov. Myelocytes were found in the blood, it became clear that the bone marrow was affected.
He was ill, like most of the people who used to work there at the time of tragedy, he was found hanged, but on April 28, Legasov was to announce to the government the data of his own investigation into the causes of the Chernobyl disaster. According to some information, some of the recordings that Valery Alekseevich read to the recorder was erased.
In any case, the fact is the totalitarian system hated freedom of speech and truth, and imagine what cynicism officials could reach, and the watchdogs of the regime to convict a person that he shouldn’t tell the truth about the causes and consequences of the disaster. It was also terrifying that the obvious dilettantes surrounded the nuclear power plant itself.
 
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Not the whole world, but much of the former Soviet Union is, for most of the RBMK reactors are still online. They were modified after Chernobyl to improve their safety, but they still have positive thermal and void coefficients of reactivity.

In the case of Fukushima, by contrast, the reactor was shut down as soon as the earthquake happened. The explosion was caused by a buildup of hydrogen from the inability to remove the decay heat, which had substantially diminished in the hours it had been shut down. Thus, while a large amount of radioactivity was released into the environment, it wasn’t chunks of fuel like Chernobyl. The vast ocean heavily diluted the spilled fission products, keeping health and environmental impacts much smaller than those of the tsunami itself.
 
Worse, there’s a deliberate attempt to get rid of nuclear power without regard to the fact that we can’t be rid of nuclear weapons without nuclear power. I have brought this up several times only for the anti-nuclear power people to ignore it completely.
 
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I do not agree with the common classification of Russia as an “enemy state.” The USA has never been at war with Russia.
My opinion is that Russia is the best friend that the USA could have in this world, and our refusal to accept that friendship will not turn out well for us or for anyone else for that matter, except maybe ISIS
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The word enemy does not necessarily mean you are or have been at war with another country. You should check the definition.

Russia is NOT the best friend that the US has or could have. They are indeed an enemy state to western countries (already invaded and occupied two in Europe). We totally must be on guard against their hostility.
Anyone cuddling up to Russia is a fool ( I am talking generally and not about any specific individual).
 
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This is not the place to post elaborate details about nuclear weapons.
  1. Nuclear weapons in the stockpile need periodic maintenance.
  2. No more nuclear weapons need to be made.
  3. No more nuclear power plants need to be built.
  4. If the military needs one or two for maintenance purposes, they will have them in an underground location.
  5. There is a way to destroy nuclear materials but no one wants to pay for it. There’s no money in it.
 
It took half the US reactor fleet 20 years to burn up just the surplus weapons-grade uranium from the former Soviet Union, and believe me, there was money in it. The United States Enrichment Corporation relied almost exclusively on Megatons to Megawatts uranium.
 
Well, I’m glad that at least our sun continues to use nuclear fusion, since it provides the power for all life on earth. And that nuclear fusion was not invented by anyone on earth.
 
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Don’t preserve it - help to make it great and good.
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That’s grand. I agree. But you can’t honestly say that the foreign interference of the USA is part of that. The US needs to stop interfering in the Middle East and around the world, except maybe when it comes to the likes of Kim Yong Un and the like. The US interference in the Middle East has brought about an even worse situation there. Most of it is not even about the good of the people but about oil.
 
Did the Mid East have a role to play in anything that has taken place? Has this “interference” brought any good with it? The life style in the MidEast hasn’t been doing very well for most people for an awfully long time - can there be some reason that would explain more that the US made it worse? The MidEast found they had a lot of oil, worth a lot of money, when President F.D. Roosevelt offered to buy some - maybe that caused everything. Maybe the MidEast should just get out of the oil business and go back to doing whatever they were doing?
 
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Hate them or like them, the notion of disarming is silly. Even if there were an accident, they would not go away completely. The ONLY way to get rid of them is to render them obsolete by perfecting a defense against them.

I thought we were on the way of doing that until the hypersonic missiles came out. It is hard to imagine creating an effective defense against something like that anytime soon.
 
The US has finished testing its own hypersonic missiles – two programs actually. They are using very old technology. The X-15 manned rocket plane exceeded Mach 6 in the 1960s.
 
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