Yeah, I keep reading/hearing this all over the place.
Since all US submarines are “nuclear” as in nuclear powered it would be nice if someone could be bothered to differentiate between SSN and SSBN. Because, you know, inquiring minds and all that.
Not that it actually matters that much anyway. Yes, okay, it’s a gesture. Posturing.
But since the UGM-133A Trident II (aka Trident D5) has an operational range of more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi)1) you can place the subs they’re on pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere and still can hit anything worth hitting. Which, combined with the stealth inherent in a submarine, is the whole point of the system. If you don’t mind all that much about being stealthy and possible sneak attacks you can leave them docked at their home ports.
1) The exact range is classified because, to paraphrase Lazlo Hollyfeld, the military is always so mistrustful.
I think there are some missing images in the archived version here:
Here is the original:
It linked to a paywalled version of this essay by Gunther Anders:
The Rhisotope Project Inserts Non-Lethal Radioactive Seeds Into Rhino Horns to Combat Poaching
It would make it easier to spot contraband rhino horns at airports etc.
However, any guy who is dumb enough to believe rhino horn will help with his, um, performance is also dumb enough to believe that radioactive rhino horn is bound to be even more effective.
No, those are for girls, look at the the box!
The Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity has an exquisite collection of … interesting products:
https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/index.html
https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/index.html
The Radium Girls is a fascinating book, about the women who painted radium watch dials in the early 1900s. It touches on some of the medical uses as well.
It’s an off-label use!
I’m going to show this to my gastroenterologist at my appointment tomorrow as a possible alternative treatment for my IBD.
Off-label.
ETA
He said he preferred “more modern treatment.”
Poo. Aspirin’s been around for years, not to mention heroin.
More on that here…
In the 1980s we lived in fear of taking a Soviet (or American) missile to the head. I remember that in the same week a local newspaper republished the report that Mr. John Hersey made with five Hiroshima survivors and a TV station aired an NHK (if I remember well) special documentary that showed a simulation of a nuclear bomb in a modern city. For an impressionable child, that was too much.
