As you know, there was a tragedy in Russia a few days ago involving nuclear technology, and the seven people killed were buried today. Not a great deal else is known — including in Russia. TIME Magazine:
Russian media have speculated that the weapon being tested was the SSC-X-9 Skyfall, known in Russia as the Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered cruise missile that President Vladimir Putin introduced to the world in a brief animated segment during his state-of-the-nation address last year.
The incident comes after a series of massive explosions earlier last week at a Siberian military depot killed one and injured 13, as well as forcing the evacuation of 16,500 people from their homes. Russia’s navy has suffered numerous high-profile accidents over the years. In July, 14 sailors died in a fire aboard a nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea in an incident on which officials initially refused to comment. A top naval official later said the men gave their lives preventing a “planetary catastrophe.”
Now, Donald Trump is on vacation and playing on Twitter. Here’s what he said.
The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian “Skyfall” explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2019
Did the President just confirm the existence of a missile system with mini-nuclear reactors aboard, eliminating distance limitations, and that can fly low and weave around anti-missile shields? https://t.co/Bg1bzBXRwG
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) August 12, 2019
Is he doing his usual lying/bluffing routine — or is he revealing something he shouldn’t? That is the question.
So, is the President of the United States lying/bluffing about our capabilities (we don't have missiles with tiny nuclear reactors) or just revealing our secret weapons to the world… Which is worse? https://t.co/LpO7bY1nlI
— Real Talk 910 (@RealTalk910) August 12, 2019
Huh? Is he saying the US has secretly developed a nuclear-powered cruise missile? Project Pluto was canceled in July 1964. At same time, he confirms story I published Friday on experts suspecting explosion of Skyfall. https://t.co/Df8pHAS8Gm https://t.co/SXp12oxq3I
— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) August 12, 2019
This is bizarre. We do not have a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. We tried to build one, in the 1960's, but it was too crazy, too unworkable, too cruel even for those nuclear nuts Cold War years. https://t.co/DWMn07yO3Y https://t.co/7Uqpx7B7Sk
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) August 12, 2019
If there is such a program, maybe Jared mentioned it to him, since Jared reads the intelligence briefs every day — and then God knows who he shares the information with. Jared is very interested in nuclear reactors, as you know, he was selling them to the Saudis in 2017. But we don’t need to worry, right? Because Trump has real nuclear experts around him? Like at the Department of Energy? Oh — wait —
— Michelle for (M??) (@MichelleQualman) August 12, 2019
I’ve known a few military people with top security clearances. They didn’t even tell their wives what they were working on. They sure as hell didn’t tell Twitter.
OMG, here…here’s stupid, once again, so proud of announcing superior THINGS, here in the US … yet, he and pea brain from Texas, Rick Perry don’t have a clue, WTF they are working with in our huge system of military arms … don’t even know that the biggest use of anything nuclear in weapons that can, and are field weapons in ground conflicts, are depleted uranium, very dense and very heavy, more so than lead, used in heavy machine guns in the, “Warthogs”, anti-tank planes that are still considered the cat’s meow to blow up selected buildings, armored vehicles and associated parked planes, hangers and so on … ALL public information …
Since small reactors have been around a long time, Russia, as a common practice over there built a large number of them and placed them all over the country and other places in the world they held power for years and some are still out there and radioactive as heck … there has been concern that the weather may have deteriorated the security of these devices over many years.
Our engineers were convinced we could build automobiles with nuclear power, but that idea was stifled by the limitations of even a small reactor … proper shielding, and containing extremely high temperatures over long periods of time along with high pressures, and enough room and equipment to throttle the reaction like the rods in our nuclear power plants.
Also, IMO, the only practical energy source from the reactor would be electricity on at least 2 levels of interface, a heat transmission system like the power plants using a circulated liquid, water in the power plants, but maybe molten salts instead … all this ending up, driving high speed turbines … and that would mean that what we now use for our cruise missiles, actually jet engines, extremely agile systems with giant input logic/data from sensors and pre-loaded flight plans, the rocket engines in cruise missiles just launch the missiles up into the air in the right direction, then, like our big missiles, once they get everything high enough and going fast enough, they stop and the small jet/rocket engines can steer them across many miles distance flying real close to the ground, following the terrain and avoiding tall buildings and towers and most radar systems … I can’t imagine a direct electrical motor/fan unit that would be as efficient as our present day jets, it may mean they tried some package deal to use a reactor, and all those problems I mentioned bit them in the butt …. BOOM !!
Leave it to mega-mouth to release top secret info, given the chance, or field plans and operators for other countries … with his giant incredible lack of intelligence, it’s a wonder that he can operate his phone at all, maybe he keeps the TV’s in the WH always tuned to fox and ON, just needs to know how to run the volume controls … /s
I found this very disturbing. Trump isn’t smart enough to make up a lie like this. I think that he’s parroting something he heard — whether it’s real or not, who knows, but I think he’s repeating somebody else’s words.
Then I submit he’s repeating someone else’s lie. And when it comes to the one-up game, Ursula, he IS just smart enough to say “I have a better version of that impressive thing over there.”
No part of that lie required him to be smart. He only used his usual “my dick (bank account) is bigger than yours” stuff, he would get a briefing on what Skyfall was, and he would NOT get a briefing on what we have. I am absolutely convinced that our military keeps him out of the loop bc of stupidty/arrogance like today, OR, being a total willing Russian mole. So, why would they tell him about their advanced programs anyway?
Ok, nuclear cruise missile…insane. But can we dev a nuclear powered moon drone?? Imagine it…a drone just flying all over the moon for endless months. We could have a Moonuke drone cam.
And before anyone tells me that idea is stupid, the actual real project was a cruise missile that would spray radioactive crap into the air for months to wreak ecological terror on our enemies. My idea doesn’t even remotely compete.
#moonuke
Moon nuke, huh? Well, that’s on a par with “nuke the whales.” Did you ever see that bumper sticker? Donald Trump wouldn’t even know that it was meant humorously. With his attitudes towards endangered species, it would make a great deal of sense, in fact.