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kleinbl00  ·  862 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FBI sought nuclear documents in search of Trump's home

I'm kinda torn about it.

For more than ten years now I have measured cars in "Mooney units". My father bought an M20F for $65k and from that point forth every extravagance was measured in terms of how many private planes would it buy. My wife's Honda? 1/4 Mooney unit. The Porsche? 1/3 Mooney Unit. A Gallardo? 2x Mooney Units. Any reasonable house in our Los Angeles neighborhood? 20 Mooney Units.

"18 FBI agents" is sorta my baseline now. It's what asking your father about half a critical mass of plutonium on a tapped line brings to his house. That's 1800sqft on 2 acres in dirt-poor New Mexico occupied by a senior citizen. 30 agents to Mar-el-Lago? It seems like underkill to me.

So work with me here. THINGS TRUMP HAS PROPOSED NUKING:

Afghanistan

No really, Afghanistan

Seriously, Afghanistan

Hurricanes

If I were a betting man, I would bet that Trump has some documents related to "this warhead can be tuned to do between this and this much damage according to models." 'cuz remember - we haven't tested since '92. Any number is plenty big enough, as doctrinally our warheads are tuned well below what we've ever tested to but whereas every armchair dipshit has a guesstimate DOE/SAC's guesses are probably better.

And if I were a betting man, I'd bet that Trump kept that shit on principle because why the hell would you hide your strength from your enemies? Rocket Man has these sad nukes, so sad, barely five kilotons, we could wipe them off the face of the earth, a couple warning shots and it'd be all over!