History Main / AtomicHate

* Any planned nuclear-capable platform that did not enter service or entered service in a non-nuclear form only if it was obviously intended for a nuclear capability. Therefore the ''Seawolf''-class attack sub is included in SuperiorFirepower as it was a UsefulNotes/ColdWar design intended for nuclear-use. The ''Virginia'' design occurred afterwards, so isn't. The same applies with Russian carriers- ''Admiral Kuznetsov'' is included, the new planned carriers are not. If a ship was laid down, it's included.

Credit should be given to nukes for being the only weapons that, after their initial use, were so frightening that humanity has done everything it could ''not'' to use them again. That still doesn't change the fact that nukes are awesome. Until one, hopefully not, goes off above your head, or just in close proximity to it. And even then it's pretty awesome … for somebody else witnessing from outside the fireball and blast radii. ''You'', on the other hand, will be vaporized faster than any neural signals could travel to the brain, let alone be processed into actual perception, and will cease to exist without ever knowing that anything happened at all. Those who die this way are the lucky ones compared to those who die from radiation poisoning brought on by radioactive fallout, which can spread for many, many miles following the explosion.

Credit should be given to nukes for being the only weapons that, after their initial use, were so frightening that humanity has done everything it could ''not'' to use them again. That still doesn't change the fact that nukes are awesome. Until one, hopefully not, goes off above your head, or just in close proximity to it. And even then it's pretty awesome … for somebody else witnessing from outside the fireball and blast radii. ''You'', on the other hand, will be vaporised faster than any neural signals could travel to the brain, let alone be processed into actual perception, and will cease to exist without ever knowing that anything happened at all. (From a certain point of view, this is the kindest fate that war — nuclear or otherwise — can offer.)

When the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed just what effect they had, they became an integral part of culture.

* NuclearGlossary

* TypesOfNuclearWeapons

* TheMoscowCriterion

Credit should be given to nukes for being the only weapons that, after their initial use, were so frightening that humanity has done everything it could ''not'' to use them again. That still doesn't change the fact that nukes are awesome. Until one, hopefully not, goes off above your head, or just in close proximity to it. And even then it's pretty awesome … for somebody else witnessing from outside the fireball and blast radii. ''You'', on the other hand, will be vaporised faster than any neural signals could travel to the brain, let alone be processed into actual perception, and will cease to exist without ever knowing that anything happened at all. (From a certain point of view, this is the kindest fate that war — nuclear or otherwise — can offer.)+

[[caption-width-right:250:[[VideoGame/MetalGear War has changed...]][[note]][[{{VideoGame/Fallout}} ...but in the end, it never changes.]][[/note]]]]

-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer]]''', looking back on the first nuclear bomb test

Credit should be given to nukes for being the only weapons that, after their initial use, were so frightening that humanity has done everything it could ''not'' to use them again. That still doesn't change the fact that nukes are awesome. Until one, hopefully not, goes off above your head, or just in close proximity to it. And even then it's pretty awesome … for somebody else witnessing from outside the fireball and blast radii. ''You'', on the other hand, will be vaporised faster than any neural signals could travel to the brain, let alone be processed into actual perception, and will cease to exist without ever knowing that anything happened at all. (From a certain point of view, this is the kindest fate that war — nuclear or otherwise — can offer.)

[[caption-width-right:250:War has changed...[[note]][[{{VideoGame/Fallout}} ...but in the end, it never changes.]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:250:War has changed...[[note]][[{{VideoGame/Fallout}} But War... War never changes]].[[/note]]]]

Credit should be given to nukes for being the only weapons that, after their initial use, were so frightening that humanity has done everything it could ''not'' to use them again. That still doesn't change the fact that nukes are awesome. Until one, hopefully not, goes off above your head, or just in close proximity to it. And even then it's pretty awesome, at least for a few miliseconds.

->''"Now we are all sons of bitches."''
-->-- '''Kenneth Bainbridge''', to Oppenheimer.

-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'''

->''"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."''
-->-- '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', quoting the ''Literature/BhagavadGita'', after witnessing the first atomic explosion on July 16th 1945.[[note]] [[BeamMeUpScotty Maybe]]. His brother Frank, who was next to him at the time, recalls that he simply said: "It worked...it worked". There's some doubt over whether Bainbridge was replying to Oppenheimer, or just making a general comment on the magnitude of what the Manhattan Project had unleashed.[[/note]]

-> ''"Now we are all sons of bitches."''

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveANuke

* TheDeadliestMushroom

-->-- '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', quoting the ''Literature/BhagavadGita'', after witnessing the first atomic explosion.[[note]] [[BeamMeUpScotty Maybe]]. His brother Frank, who was next to him at the time, recalls that he simply said: "It worked...it worked". There's some doubt over whether Bainbridge was replying to Oppenheimer, or just making a general comment.[[/note]]

-->-- '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', quoting the ''Literature/BhagavadGita'', after witnessing the first atomic explosion.

-->-- '''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', quoting Hindu Scripture, after witnessing the first atomic explosion.

* Pakistan: UsefulNotes/ PakAttack

* Any planned nuclear-capable platform that did not enter service or entered service in a non-nuclear form only if it was obviously intended for a nuclear capability. Therefore the ''Seawolf''-class attack sub is included in SuperiorFirepower as it was a ColdWar design intended for nuclear-use. The ''Virginia'' design occurred afterwards, so isn't. The same applies with Russian carriers- ''Admiral Kuznetsov'' is included, the new planned carriers are not. If a ship was laid down, it's included.