Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Politics

Well it's not like China and Korea are the only nations in that part who don't like Japan.

Edited by M84 on Oct 30th 2023 at 11:48:30 PM

Considering the current off that part of Japan carries the water Northeast, Southeast Asia has far less to be concerned about.

Just remembering the path of the Tsunami debris gives away where the water would eventually end up.

They weren't the ones getting Tsunami debris, North America was.

Fukushima announced that the third wave of treated water was released.

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Well someone needs to assure the fisherfolks in that region. I know Singapore isn’t worried about it.

Edited by Ominae on Nov 3rd 2023 at 6:41:45 AM

How much toxic waste does China already dump into the ocean? As in industrial biproducts and such? I have a feeling it's a lot more harmful than this water

I think Japanese newspapers did show some stats. Not sure which one though.

I wonder what a non-literal nuclear attack would look like...

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-118053/

Yomiuri's English page has a photo of nuclear waste dumped from Chinese NP Ps. They sourced the data from Tokyo.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/11/e67d3ebdcaf8-pacific-island-nations-express-concern-over-japans-water-release.html#google_vignette

Most of the Pacific Island nations are concerned about the latest water discharge from Fukushima, but they agree that the discharge is based on international standards. Guess who raised the "most" concern (clue: He's from a country that starts with the letter S and end with the letter n).

The Soviet Union?

Sudan?

Also, what is "Kyodo"?

Edited by Redmess on Nov 10th 2023 at 7:40:06 PM

The Solomon Islands is closest of the Pacific Islands, but that ends with S.

Other options are South Sudan, (unlikely) Spain, and Sweden, but I don't know if any of these places have a record of being particularly whiny about nuclear power.

Yeah, I think that's all of them. So... which one was it?

The link to the article is right there.

We were just having fun with a needlessly cryptic post.

You were also making it look like all you read was the headline, which is a common enough problem it seemed safe to conclude regardless of how much fun you were having.

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Nov 10th 2023 at 10:03:12 AM

No, I read the post, which did not mention the headline at all, and was being cryptic about the content. You are supposed to post news articles in a way that don't require people to click the link to read the article. It's in the rules.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/business/economy/20231110-148708/

If anyone follows koi, then Beijing just made rules that the Nishikigoi koi aren’t allowed to be imported to China anymore.

People in the koi world are suspecting that this is related to the latest water discharge from Fukushima.

As opposed to the import of non-nishikigoi koi...?

Word I got is that koi species is well-liked by the Chinese buyers.

AFAIK, Tokyo is still following up on this new ban.

So now koi’s involved in this battle between China and Japan.

Edited by Ominae on Nov 10th 2023 at 7:41:48 AM

So in other words, China is just taking a carp on Japanese products again.

I heard a nuclear sub and cruiser have been deployed to the Middle East, and the US has announced this. From what I understand, this is to signal to Iran to not get any ideas, and could suggest that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons of its own.

Nuclear powered or nuclear armed. There is a profound difference between the two, especially since from what I understand most of the US submarine fleet is nuclear powered (as is the carrier fleet and there's already one of those on station).

All the submarines the US has that are capable of striking land targets are nuclear armed, though not every weapon aboard is nuclear.... the submarines without nuclear armaments are only capable of engaging ships.

So the answer is probably a bit of both, there not being deployed for the nuclear armament aboard, rather the hundreds of conventional cruise missiles, they cary.... but the fact that some of the cells aboard carry is a bit of a threat itself.

Bluntly you wouldn't re-position a nuclear sub for its nuclear armament any way, the nuclear missiles aboard have infinite range, the conventional ones do not.

Edited by Imca on Nov 14th 2023 at 6:01:32 PM

Do nuclear subs have infinite range? I didn't know they could launch ICB Ms.

They do not carry ICBMs, afaik, but their SLBMs have comparable range.