DBWI: A nuclear test ban treaty had been implemented

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While incidences of cancer have increased and it's impossible to find a spot on the Earth that doesn't have an above background level of radioactivity (i.e. from the sun- iodine supplements are highly recommended now), a nuclear test moratorium hasn't been considered as countries consider national security to be paramount.
OOC: Background levels of radiation include nuclear fallout. Nuclear detonations increase the entire Earth's background radiation level, so in this alternate world, the average place on Earth wouldn't have an "above background level of radioactivity" but rather the background radiation level would be higher across the entire surface of the Earth. For example, in reality, the background radiation is higher than it was before the first nuclear test, so we call steel made before 1945 "low-background steel".

IC: Another post by conspiracy theorist agitators. Look, the background radiation has increased only due to solar output, which has been increasing for the last 40,000 years. It's a natural process. Are you telling me you believe that a tiny amount of detonations by humans could change the entire climate? Don't be ridiculous.
 
On one hand, despite everything having computer security be an essential course in college to prevent hacking of atomic facilities is a godsend. Imagine the spam and viruses being let loose on a unprepared populace.
 

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On one hand, despite everything having computer security be an essential course in college to prevent hacking of atomic facilities is a godsend. Imagine the spam and viruses being let loose on a unprepared populace.
Well, only vetted, certified Nixon Foundation universities. Don't want the domestic commies hacking into the nuclear codes.

Well, i for one would have liked to have seen that ban, a cleaner earth and less bombs about. but i will temper it by saying we would still be stuck in LEO . a test ban would have meant no project Orion, no super heavy lift into orbit, and no viable deep space capability. can imagine trying to go to mars with a chemical engine! a test ban, however, good would have condemned humanity to scuttle around low earth orbit for 100 years or more ,no true space stations ,no manned deep space flights no bases on the moon or mars! in short the militarization of space has been a net win for man, without it there is just no economical incentive to go out into the void with a chemical engine!
Project Orion was really an explosive success, and the second greatest achievement of mankind after Project Longshot.

Which of course was only possible with the knowledge provided by Project Orion.
 
Still the best thing about everyone wanting a nuke is that it's so expensive that they can only buy short range delivery platforms at the end or abandon and do something for it'd nations. Though, With the latest F-22 with the quick firing laser the days of the short range missile are going. I wonder what's next?
 

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Still the best thing about everyone wanting a nuke is that it's so expensive that they can only buy short range delivery platforms at the end or abandon and do something for it'd nations.
Yeah, and the high price of nuclear weapons means that the US selling them to fellow NATO members is that much more profitable.

Though, With the latest F-22 with the quick firing laser the days of the short range missile are going. I wonder what's next?
Orbital weapons are definitely the future. Operation Death Star has come a long way since 1993.
 
Yeah, and the high price of nuclear weapons means that the US selling them to fellow NATO members is that much more profitable.


Orbital weapons are definitely the future. Operation Death Star has come a long way since 1993.
It makes Killer Crocs lines from Batman the Abridged Series that much funnier "Then I threw a rock at him!" Whose laughing now Joker?
 
The Trans-Nicaragua (aka the Pan Atomic Canal) canal and the hydroelectric canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression in Egypt wouldn't have been constructed. The Qattara canal needed 213 1 megaton explosive devices to excavate the thing (OOC: Yes, really).
 
Project Longshot.

Geting a probe to are nerest star in 20 years was are first step into the future, that could never have happend under a test ban!!​
 
On the bright side, the loss of so much of the world's oil supply has led to greater advancement in electric cars. Right now at least 40% of vehicles on the road today are electric-powered.
Yeaaaaah...

I still say the supposed North Vitnamese bomb on Saigon was just a Chinese bomb, just like the supposed South Vietnamese bomb on Hanoi was actually American as recently revealed by wikileaks.
You never knows with these two... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

He is from Malaysia, they love nuclear weapons over there, nobody ever bombed anything closer to them than Saigon and Palau.
Let's just hope Singapore won't become a bay/cove if they do have the bomb...

The Trans-Nicaragua (aka the Pan Atomic Canal) canal and the hydroelectric canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression in Egypt wouldn't have been constructed. The Qattara canal needed 213 1 megaton explosive devices to excavate the thing
I still remember all the European Ecologist Parties being super ultra mad... :biggrin:
 
Yeaaaaah...


You never knows with these two... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


Let's just hope Singapore won't become a bay/cove if they do have the bomb...


I still remember all the European Ecologist Parties being super ultra mad... :biggrin:
Didn't that canal collapse soon afterwards making the whole thing moot?
 
While the only nukes use in the Kargil War were tactical ones, they still led to almost 5 million deaths, 3.4 million in Pakistan and 1.3 million in India along with tens of thousands in China and Afghanistan due to the fallout. Also, what do you think is the future of the Republic of Arabia formed in 1998?
 
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