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Ah that Teller-Ulam design is so 1950s...time for antimatter weapons...1 kg of regular matter yields 40 megatons of energy equivalent in the form of a mini gamma ray burst when annihialiated with antimatter.

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What a shock (not so much.)

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Okay, thank you! This seems like middling on the danger scale. Potential to get bad if mismanaged, but not intentionally world-threatening. Still creepy as fuck.

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He's shallow enough to BE a shoal.

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Well, we certainly wouldn't quit buying their shit. I mean war is one thing, but commerce is commerce!

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China took Taiwan? When?

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My rightwing instincts prefer the weapons that destroy the people but leave the property reusable.

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The monarchists will be pissed about this but my theory (and it belongs to me 🙂) is that all those scions of Victoria (Especially the Kaiser) got all jealous of the $$$$ the British Empire was raking in during the 19th century and the $$$$ the British Royals had at their disposal (and all the sycophants of such Kings) they were mad as hell they were not the monarch of all the power and glory that all they could think about was "how can I be as rich and as powerful as my dumbass cousin Bertie?" and but for his parents "It Could Be Me"! I think of King Leopold of Belgium and how he pillaged and murdered and exploited the Congo because he wanted to be the richest monarch in Europe. They just wanted to be the country that raped and pillaged the world as "wonderfully" as the Brits did.

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Major, just so ya know, we Olds like to do our own Monty Python riffs.

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X4.Major, SIR! (Yeah, whatever...)Thank you for your efforts to bring this internationalconcern to our Wonkette. This article only scratches the surface of what'sgoing on within the ASIAN political/diplomatic region. The circumstances reachFAR BEYOND the Philippines.

The results of the recent Nihon elections clearly reflectour ally’s concern over China's "flexing of their political/militarymuscle". I hope there is an effort to observe the changes that will takeplace to the Japanese Constitution here, in the USA.

I've been trying to follow this for about three plus yearsand the only way I could do so was by reaching out to multiple foreign newssources. I hope your readers (and/or Wonkette's) will express an interestbeyond the borders of the U.S. in an effort to view what is of concern beyondthe radius of our "gated communities"...

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Clearly, we need a porn equivalent of Voice of America beaming videos into China stat!

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Always had them.

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Yes. Some are suspecting it's for undersea oil and other resources.

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You know what they say about complementary colors

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Yup. We're going to be looking at the S. China Sea and parts of Africa as the next next trouble spots soon. Remember when it was just the Balkans (it was never just the Balkans)?

At least we don't live in any of those 'theres'.

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Vietnam is on line 2

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