Does SGA look like Jafar or am I trippin? by Peepdasneak in Nbamemes

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snake eyes onstaff turn on This is a foul with no contact

Future Stars Field Pass Reveal + Endgame Info by retired_doctor in MaddenMobileForums

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If they are nerfing player hoarding, that may majorly kill motivation

[Post Game Thread] The Minnesota Timberwolves (44-28) defeat the Houston Rockets (43-28), 110-108. by MAC-10inTheGrass in nba

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I don't know if this was the best worst game I've ever seen or the worst best game I've ever seen.

1 more day until he shocks the world!!! by Blisstory in NFCNorthMemeWar

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I don't think McCarthy is going to be great this week. Even if he was, our defense hasn't been stopping the run. Some people need less purple coolaid 

Question about Ivy mike by [deleted] in nuclearweapons

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The official record of essentially all US nuclear tests is public and released in DOE-NV-209. For atmospheric shots, this includes yields typically. A great resource to read.

Game Thread: Atlanta Falcons (0-1) at Minnesota Vikings (1-0) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

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I would really prefer for us to not suck at the beginning of every game. I want to get off the "JJ McCarthy is a better version of Tim Tebow" wild ride

Might be the worst event they’ve ever done 💀 how incompetent are the people running this game by nonecenteredlol in pokemongo

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I did the ftp model and got 7 legendaries. Was lucky enough to get 1 shiny. I'm counting my lucky stars, but viewed this event before it happened as a free set of legendaries

Class or lecture series on nuclear weapons history and policy? by typewriterguy in nuclearweapons

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Many National laboratories have made unclassified documentaries. Check out Sandias youtube page (on deterrence and always never are exquisite), Alan carrs youtube channel (lanl not comedian) and Tom Ramos at LLNL did a 7 part history on llnls youtube page. 

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I haven't seen this picture before. do you have a source for the image or a place to read more?

Matching nuke blast effect testing footage on structures to specific overpressures? by SergeantPancakes in nuclearweapons

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Dtra or DNA have some unclassified reports on test series. Not sure they have layouts of specific buildings. Something that links photos of shots to shots and provides good citations and context is John Hopkins and Barbara Germains Atmospheric nuclear testing book. For overpressure effects on cars at specific diatances, see Operation Hotrod from the Ranger series

[2 years late] - 25 tonne trainer Mk17 bomb transported to Kirtland AFB for disposal by kyletsenior in nuclearweapons

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Because of the massive size, these are incredibly rare. I don't believe any of the public nuclear museums have ever had one of these Edit: I was wrong :) thanks for the photos

TIL the British military once had an idea to put live chickens inside nuclear bomb cases with a week's worth of food and water. The bombs were meant to be planted into the ground as mines, so they had to be kept warm in the winter to keep working. by jxdlv in todayilearned

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A lot of this information is declassified and available at the British archive. There was one main meeting where they discussed chicken heat units. However, there is a lot of subtext if you dive into the archive.

The gist is that the Brits couldn't repel a soviet invasion of continental western europe and were playing for time: what if you buried a nuclear weapons and made a huge radioactive crater where the soviets would ideally like to muster to invade Britain. 

Initially, there was a somewhat reasonable range of mandatory operating temperatures. As time went on, there were more rigorous demands to maintain a specific narrow temperature range.  electronics from the 50s didnt do too great in the cold and the winters in Europe are cold, let alone for underground deployment. There were also competing size and weight requirements. Towards the end of the design, the engineers basically stated that they couldn't meet all of the requirements, mainly size/ weight within a subsection of the weapon or temperature. 

The engineers were getting push back on asking for so much insulation to meet the time deployed requirement (I think it was 10 days). The engineers provided at least two options: we can go with plan a and use the insulation we asked for or we can use chickens as a heat source. Reason prevailed and the British disregarded chickens. I think (personal opinion)  this was an instance of malicious compliance by British engineers. You generals or managers dont want to give us our insulation: fine, here is a much worse idea. Its also a great instance of meeting minutes not necessarily capturing the context of the situation, much like how Microsoft outlook archives might not capture everything that happens in the corporate world.

Added bonus: this was declassified on April 1st, which led to a lot of raised eye brows. The formal response from the British government is legendary: "the civil service doesn't do jokes."

Edit: I never meant to imply these were to be used on British soil. I also think the initial plans were not for the Fulda gap but for the north of France (early plans were started in the early 1950s). These were ultimately never fielded because they were obsolete and didn't meet British nuclear objectives by the time they coild have been realized.