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[–] nuke 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Username checks out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not certain if female Oppenheimer or female Vishnu here.

[–] verity_kindle 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought Vishnu was the creator, Kali was the destroyer. Or Kali is an aspect of Vishnu?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Creative destruction, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What happened? Did they bomb another depot?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The night of September 17, Ukraine blew up a very large Russian ammunition depot at Toropets, up in Moscow's general direction.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/39247

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OeKEHCuic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toropets_depot_explosions

While there wasn't a single detonation, the numbers I've seen quoted are that ~30 kt of total explosives went off, which is in atomic-weapon-class, larger than Hiroshima (15kt) or Nagasaki (21kt), hence the reference to Oppenheimer's quote at the successful test of Trinity (25kt), the first atomic bomb.

At that point, OP posted an image about it:

https://lemmy.today/post/16521510

The night of September 20, Ukraine blew up another ammunition depot, one at Kamenny, Tikhoretsky, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, and the other at Oktyabrsky in Tver Oblast, Russia. The image that OP used here is from Tikhoretsky.

https://kyivindependent.com/drone-strike-causes-explosions-at-facility-in-krasnodar-krai-russian-officials-say/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1CS8UeUDY

EDIT: The Toropets large explosion in the video is, from what I can tell from other sources, only about 0.2-0.24kt, so significantly-smaller than Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic detonations. I read that Ukraine hit the depot with ~100 UAVs, so probably various explosives were stored far enough from each other not to have the whole depot be touched off by one explosion. I was listening to Michael Kofman discuss it, and he mentioned that the Toropets depot is spread out over ~5km, many different storage structures.