Trump Proposes Talks With Xi And Putin On Cutting Nuclear Stockpiles
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President Donald Trump said he would like to hold nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China after conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are resolved.

President Donald Trump said he would like to hold nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China after conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are resolved.

The chief motivation would be to find ways to save money, Trump said on February 13 at the White House, lamenting the hundreds of billions of dollars being invested in rebuilding the U.S. nuclear deterrent.

  • Flying Squid
    6•7 days ago

    He’s way ahead of you. And I’m sure you’re shocked, but it would not achieve anything.

    Elon Musk has proposed terraforming Mars by detonating nuclear weapons on the Martian polar ice caps to vaporize them and release carbon dioxide and water vapor into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and water vapor are greenhouse gases, and the resultant thicker atmosphere would trap heat from the Sun, increasing the planet’s temperature. The formation of liquid water could be very favorable for oxygen-producing plants, and thus, human survival.[57][58][59][60][61]

    Studies suggest that even if all the CO2 trapped in Mars’ polar ice and regolith were released, it would not be enough to provide significant greenhouse warming to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet.[57][62][63] Another criticism is that it would stir up enough dust and particles to block out a significant portion of the incoming sunlight, causing a nuclear winter, the opposite of the goal.[57]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Use_of_nuclear_weapons

    • @mipadaituEnglish
      4•7 days ago

      This plan was always doomed from the start.

      The aliens left us a terraforming machine just under Mons Olympus. Send Arnold up there to turn it on and we’ll have an atmosphere on Mars in minutes.