If Russia nuked Canada, which places would he aim?

Probably high population centres (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal), political areas (i.e. Ottawa) and critical infrastructure (Energy production/transportation/food production/Military bases/etc).

This is all speculation, and not backed by anything other than my views and personal research.

"the animated host on the daily news entertainment podcast explaining the difference between strategic and tactical nuclear weapons to me in between hello fresh ads and a plug for his new book" surely is a fun new level of mundane horror of these interesting times

I died from a nuclear war and descended into hell with water above me, as if I were drowning, with the final words I hear very softly:

“You’re too late.”

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

Edit: friends, there's been some doubt cast on the veracity of Alisa's claims. The human cost to the Hispanos population caught downwind of the nuclear tests is very real, as was land seizure without adequate compensation. However, there's no record I can yet find about Los Alamos killing livestock and Hispanos being forced to work for Los Alamos without PPE. There is a separate issue about human testing in the development of said PPE that's not covered here. I'm turning off reblogs until I can find out more. Meanwhile, here's another more legitimate article you can boost instead:

Don’t anybody dare twist this as antisemitism. I’m not gonna be pissed at someone simply for being Jewish or from Israel. There are Israeli Jewish people who are horrified and against this slaughter, too.

It disgusts me how the news will pull individual deaths, like the pregnant woman who was murdered and had her fetus pulled out and stabbed, as an excuse to say Palestinians are animals.

Yeah, that killing was fucked up! Anyone reasonable would say so.

—I’ve been told that the above was done to a Palestinian person and it’s a DARVO situation, but I’m keeping it as is to show the lies and twisting of what’s happening.

Now try this one: ISRAEL BOMBED AND WIPED OUT OVER TWO DOZEN ENTIRE PALESTINIAN FAMILIES.

And we’re supposed to see that as justified, as something to cheer for?

ENTIRE FAMILIES ARE DEAD, EXTINCT, GONE, and we should celebrate that?!

What the fuck?!

We are watching a genocide happen, how can anyone think this is okay?

If a bunch of cops invade your house and tell you to get out because they want the house now, you’re gonna fight back, right? They say it’s their property now and demand you leave or they’ll kill you. Now imagine they set fire to the exits so you can’t get out, shoot you dead through the windows and block your escape attempts if you break down walls or climb onto the roof. Somebody still alive in the house stabs one cop to death while trying to escape and gets killed by a headshot, and the people outside see all the carnage and say “well, they were warned to leave, look at what disgusting animals they are for stabbing that guy, let’s kill them all”, that’s gonna be fucked up, right?

Because that’s what this looks like.

Sometimes I think all the human species is truly capable of is violence.

Where will we all be when the nukes drop and the fallout blankets the land?

We say “never again” and never stick to it.

Fuck the human species. We all suck.

Threads (dir. Mick Jackson, 1984)

In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.

They are not idiots to start a full invasion.

24.02.2022

They are not idiots to violate international conventions

Shell the agreed humanitarian corridors and kill volunteers and journalists. Destroy cultural, and educational institutions, medical centres and critical infrastructure.

They are not idiots to shell the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. (The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station)

Shell it.

They are not idiots to explode the Khahovka Damn

Exploded it.

They are not idiots to explode The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station.

Or they are?

some art from the last few weeks but forgot to share here

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Disclaimer: This is not an all-clear regarding the danger of an explosion or other ways the area could be contaminated! 

ZNPP: Zaporizhzhya (Запоріжжя) Nuclear Power Plant, currently occupied by Russian forces

IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency

Last week the chief of Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, claimed that Russia approved a plan to blow up the nuclear power plant and had mined four out of six power units and a cooling pond. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke of a planned “terrorist attack”. On June 30th IAEA experts were able to conduct a search of part of the plant’s cooling system and reported no visible indications of newly planted mines or other explosives. It is of note that the experts still need further access to inspect other parts of the site and it is therefore not entirely sure whether every placement of mines is currently known. The IAEA already previously reported mines planted outside of ZNPP’s perimeter and also on particular places inside. 

It was also reported that Russian staff and military gave been reducing their presence at the power plant over the last days. Russia had assured the United Nations council this week there were no plans to blow up the power plant. It is not known how trustworthy those assurances are as Russia had also assured it would not invade the Ukraine.  

If you have more information it would be appreciated if you added them (preferably with a source)

We don't need to worry about nuclear war rifht now though right? I tend to be a very doomsday person and near constantly fear it and I've been trying to keep myself in check during this whole russia thing so im genuinely asking, is there a reasonable risk that nuclear war is imminent?

Well the reason that anon brought it up is this:

Not saying that's indicative of anything concrete or not, or if its just political theatre, but this is why its more on the radar.

Don't know why I woke up thinking about Pearl Harbor (the event) this morning.

Reblog if you also remember sitting in history class like, "So there was an unannounced attack on a naval base, and we retaliated by... nuking civilians?! It sounds like there's something you're not telling me!"

And it turns out... there was! Yaayyyyyyyy....

But seriously, this plays out time and time again in our history. We are told stories of completely disproportionate response, political actions that clearly betray some sort of ulterior motive, and are asked to accept that what our leaders did was the only logical way to react. And the disturbing thing is, most of us do. The same thing is happening right now in Gaza.

I been lurking 'round in my bunny suit Lay your skin out to dry, up on the roof Under the river, down through the woods I go Watership Down in my bunny suit

Oddly specific but did anyone else's parents describe brutal torture methods in excruciating detail to them (under the pretense that they could/would happen to them) or was that just me?

From Brooks Atkinson’s Once Around the Sun (1951).

Chapter 5: A Plea to Fate

Dropping in here to mention a new chapter's been posted, and its summary is thus: Moodboard images:

"The towering spires of the medieval college city of Oxford give one of the ladies of our Dramatis Personae her chance at understanding the wider scope of the chessboard of power.

Or, what can be called: Anne Neville goes to Oxford to have some Girl TimeTM, but actually has an existential crisis."

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TW and CWs: heavy discussion of post nuclear societies, hospital and medical trauma, brutal depictions of gore, and violence. NSFW.

"England is a sick state, poisoned by nuclear war, starvation, and greed. Its rulers are a queen corrupted by her own power and an exiled husband with a Napoleon complex so great that Anne is shocked that America is not yet burned to ash. It is impossible to describe just how sickly England’s people are. So, Anne instead flits into a newsagent and opens a northern paper - The Manchester Times. The obituaries alone cover 3/4ths of the entire broadsheet.  10-20 million unburied dead. Stuck under rubble and lying in open-air mass graves. Beside the watery autumn sunlight filtering in through the plate-glass window, Anne peers at the headline of the day - VICTORIA LEVIES NEW LAND LAW. For what? We hold all of the coal stocks. The farmland is irradiated and there’s no fertiliser. Tilling the fields is impossible.  Anne’s fingers tremble as she closes the paper neatly and places it back on the stand. She can almost smell the miasmatic stench once more, seeping over the high stone walls. The screams of the wounded. She’d gone to a hospital in Sheffield at Candlemas to give alms and been violently ill at what she’d seen.  Salt and water as an antibiotic. Nurses frantically tearing sheets to let patients have something to bite as they tried to treat the dying and give the dead a merciful burial. The burns were so tender that touching them sloughed off skin, pink and blistering. She can see it now, and knows that it is much worse. Much, much worse. The industrial centres are haemorrhaging under the dead who they cannot bury. Men, women, and children all killed in a firestorm of unimaginable heat. There is no way to win a nuclear war. Only hell follows. There are days, like now, where Anne grips her crucifix chain in her fingers and stares at the sky, wanting to scream at god for denying the people of England a happy century."

always fell free to talk for hours abt godzilla 1954 and its impact on film making history!!!!!!

PLEASE I COULD TALK ABOUT THE GODZILLA FRANCHISE FOREVERRRR

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR DISCUSSIONS ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE NUCLEAR BOMBING OF NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA AND BRIEF MENTIONS OF IMPERIALISM

I haven't watched every film yet but Godzilla 1954 is a classic and a cultural cornerstone in filmmaking history both in its use of special effects and its commentary on the threat of nuclear power.

Now talking about Japan in the war is tricky, as they have both done and been a victim of heinous acts. Their war crimes are absolutely abundantly endless and the things they did as an axis power goes beyond horrendous, including the treatment of POWs, women in their colonies, their association with the nazi party and involvement in their horrid experiments. Its important when talking about Japan as a nation during WW2 and the events after it it to not forget about how horrid the acts of the Japanese military were during this era despite the tragedy.

To say that the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a painstaking blow is an absolute understatement. More than 70,000 innocent people died and it has left an unhealing scar on the nation. In a way, Godzilla 1954 was created not only as a reclamation of tragedy, but also as a symbolic representation of the nuclear strikes and a warning against nuclear war personified through this unstoppable, destructive, inescapable beast that ultimately was triggered by man to begin with. The symbol of a giant lizard awakened because of weapon testing only to near enough be a downfall to the entire island is a warning to the consequences of nuclear weapons, and how if a country attempts to use such a violent force to assert their dominance, they can only expect to be met with their own demise when that uncontrollable power eventually turns on them. You could even argue that there are parallels in the movie between the Japanese testing military weapons only to provoke a sleeping beast who otherwise had no involvement (causing the creature to wake and begin its rampage) to Nagasaki and Hiroshima being a very cruel retaliation to Pearl Harbour. Either way, it pushes it's anti-war narrative very clearly though the insistance that if the military were not engaging in war and testing these weapons none of this would have happened - perhaps a hindsight perspective on Japan's imperialism and how greed, corruption and a hunger for power can cost an entire country.

Some of the most iconic shots from this movie are Godzilla seemingly emerging from nowhere, crawling into Tokyo and instantly wrecking havoc. The military attempts to fight back, but nothing can stop this unfathomable tyrant. He destroys countless building, breathing forth beams of pure energy that melts and sets ablaze anything it touches.

In short, this creature is terrifying. So terrifying that the only way to kill it is with an even bigger superweapon - a device that cuts off oxygen. A device to frightening that it was hidden because the man who invented was afraid of how it would be used in warfare and the threat of mass production of it. The harsh lessons learned from the second war and the plea for a warless future is stitched into every small detail of this movie, and in the end this film becomes a piece that, through its impact on pop culture, is a constant yet iconic reminder of the dangers of nuclear weapons and of warfare in general. All while staying lighthearted enough to be enjoyed at surface level as just a movie about fire breathing dinosaurs eating buildings.

But moving away from the writing of the movie and onto cultural impact, Godzilla 1954 is one of the very first Kaiju movies, starting the Kaiju boom and influencing other kaiju franchises and shooting the genre to popularity, inspiring both Eastern and Western cult classics. Similarly Godzilla made a major impact in special effects and I just LOVE the scene work in Godzilla. The fact that the set team had made literal miniature sculptures of Tokyo and put a guy in the suit to stomp around the models and destroy it.

Which is like. The best thing ever.

The use of camera work and the set pieces not to mention the genius acting of every actor involved (especially the man who played godzilla and his convincing performance which made me think Godzilla was some kind of puppet for the longest time) make a movie that has aged really well for the era. The technique above in question is called suitmation and it was pioneered by the Godzilla team and is pretty much the godfather of modern cgi. When I put myself in the shoes of someone watching the movie for the first time on release in theatres, I can imagine how scary it would have been at the time. My Nana watched it when she was young and SHE remembers how much it frightened her. The amazing performance along with the genius direction makes it overall an incredibly fun movie. EVERYONE should watch Godzilla 1954 at least once. Not to mention. The sound work? The soundtrack? The main theme being so urgent, iconic and instantly recognisable, like a siren that's something coming, the roaring and the sound sourced from bombs as mentioned from my friend above being used for footsteps.

Godzilla is a work of art. Godzilla forced a new industry, fresh from the war, to innovate and try new things. To push the boat, get creative with effects (similar effects being seen in work like sailor sentai and ultraman) and ultimately lead a new future for filmmaking and live action work as a whole - inspiring cult classics like Jaws (1975) and Jurassic Park (1993). Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla - King of Monsters (2019) is quite literally the if you don't love me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best because we would NOT have beautiful awe-inspiring cgi we have today without the groundwork set by suitmation set work and classics like showa era godzilla.

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Tldr. Godzilla has cemented itself in our pop culture as an anti-war anti-nuclear warfare and the themes and lessons taught through the first movie are more relevant than ever today which is why everyone should be watching this movie rn and why hollywood should adapt these anti-war themes in their current era of godzilla movies.

Dinosaurs rock. Watch King of Monsters and 100% watch Godzilla 1954 ✌️ also sorry if I got anything wrong, I haven't watched Godzilla in a while and I'm a little rusty on my war knowledge. Additionally sorry if anything I said has been insensitive, naturally these topics are incredibly difficult to talk about. If I have said something out of order I'll take this post down immediately. I'm sort of just rambling off the cuff and only googling things to make sure I get release dates and names right so maybe I'll write a more in depth analysis after I rewatch the movie and do some research on the production