I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
That the U.S. tested an innovative drive technology for drones during the Nimitz incidents in 2004.
These “UAPs” always seem to miracolously appear near US military bases, aircraft carriers and sometimes submarines, but apparently never around Europe, Africa or Asia where millions of people with phones could film them. The U.S. may have pretended to be upset, but they’re not actually interested in finding out what they are or what people could find out about them, because they did not release the footage from the helmet cameras of the pilots. They actually stayed pretty calm, so they know what it actually was: Their drones. They’re near military assets, because that’s where they’re tested and the U.S. wants to see how a military would react to these device to protect them against tactics that can detect them or bring them down before they are/were used abroad.
So they have a drive technology that can go beyond hypersonic, is accelerating really really fast, can’t be fought with properly.
My guess is that they keep this secret, because of the nuclear threat it poses. If any state in this world could deliver nuclear bombs in an instant, you simply couldn’t retaliate or defend in any meaningful way. Except maybe with a deeply burrowed SUNDIAL project device.
I also read that the Ukrainians use material (especially explosives) which were buried in the former territory of the USSR by the CIA in the time window shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed to conduct some of their covert special operations inside the Russian Federation. That way you don’t have to smuggle in new stuff and the U.S. can profit from destroyed Russian military capabilities.
My guess is that they probably did not just bury normal material there. I think the superpowers have may have buried several nuclear warheads underground in major cities that they can detonate at any time to immediately first strike or retaliate in case of a larger nuclear attack. Why bother with sending a ballistic hypersonic rocket that the enemy can possibly intercept if you can just detonate the device remotely and with almost no delay? Whether you detonate the device under or above the city doesn’t really matter if the yield is big enough to let the city fall into a nuclear polluted crater. This would be an additional reason for why the U.S. moved from atmospheric to underground testing of nuclear devices - apart from the concerns regarding fallout.
Oh and an algorithm based, individually tailored (to you) social media “experience” is probably the new MK ULTRA and it works much better.
Modern nukes contain a subcritical mass of fissile material and require an injection of tritium to arm them, and also require tritium for their second stage to get most of their rated yield. Tritium doesn’t last very long, so needs regularly topping up. If you’ve secretly buried a nuke, you’ll have to dig it up pretty often, undermining the advantages of secret burial. There’s also not much point in having a better nuclear deterrent than your enemy knows about, as the goal is to make them know you can destroy them so they’re too scared to attack you rather than to actually destroy them.
Well, then you build it in a way that doesn’t require Tritium. After all, if the bomb doesn’t need to be transported, you can build it heavier. So you don’t need to make it an H-bomb that requires Tritium.
It wouldn’t be used as a deterrent. It would be used as a retaliation mechanism.
There’s no point retaliating once you’re dead unless the enemy knows it’s something you might do. You also can’t make a plain A-bomb arbitrarily big as you need the fuel to be small enough to be subcritical until it’s assembled, and simple enough to assemble that it spends so little time critical but not supercritical that a random decay doesn’t cause a chain reaction to start before the mass is fully compressed. If it starts too early, there’s enough energy to blow the bomb apart, which stops the reaction continuing. The more material you add, the more often random decays happen, and the likelier it becomes that the reaction starts prematurely. The theoretical limit is somewhere between 500kT and 1MT, which isn’t very much for a city buster, especially if you’ve buried it. You’d have to use more than one, but a pure fission bomb is very senstive to nearby nuclear detonations, so only the first one would be likely to work.