>>19883127It will do no good to reply to this, at least in convincing the "nukes aren't real" crackpots. But maybe someone here who's not too far gone will get it. If you look at picrel, he complains that there's no reason to do a dress rehearsal with conventional explosives. That the only way to "practice" is to use a smaller nuke.
But what if you want to know how big your nuke booms? It looks big, and everyone who sees it is impressed, but there's a bunch of 2 and 3 star generals back in DC who are really tightasses, and they want to know. How the fuck do you measure a nuke?
You put down 500 tons of TNT. You blow this up, and you take measurements of it (almost certainly seismographic, but probably other measurements). Those measurements are a half kiloton in size (how do you know? because you weighed it, and you know it's TNT, right from the boom factory in Shitsville, Arkansas or where ever).
Then you blow up the nuke. Are the measurements bigger (almost certainly)? How much bigger? Are they x50 bigger? Ok, that's a 25kton nuke.
We caught North Korea doing this too. Were they trying to fake nukes? No. Kim Il Sung wanted to know how big his nukes boomed. And everyone has to measure the same way. I suppose they could've asked us for our reference measurements... haha.
Nukes are the realest thing you'll ever see for the last 0.01 seconds of your life.
