• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
    411·
    6 months ago

    There’s a statue in Dachau concentration camp of an emaciated man that reads something like: “In memory of the dead and a warning to the living”.

    It seems we have ignored both warnings.

  • Winter8593@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    6 months ago

    Wait there was a nuclear test less than a year ago?

    Edit: Wikipedia says the most recent test was on 2017/09/03, making this photo taken on 2018/04/01

    Edit 2: I found the article this photo is from with more context. TL:DR it was reset back in 2022 bc the US conducted two clandestine tests.

    • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
      272·
      6 months ago

      I wouldn’t call the US tests “clandestine”. They’re subcritical, meaning they don’t generate any nuclear yield. They also report when they do these in the annual NNSA reports.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      Interesting, they were “sub critical” tests. I mean that really shouldn’t count…puts them on par with actual detonations (which Russia is clearly prepping to do soon with tactical nukes).

      • weker01@feddit.de
        5·
        6 months ago

        Why shouldn’t they count? It’s literally testing a nuclear weapon. The clock does not say: “Time since the last detonation of a nuclear weapon”.

        Edit: But one could argue that nuclear weapons get tested all the time without any kind of detonation. These should count too IMHO.

        Edit: just read another article on the tests. They happen to design new weapons with them which makes them not tests to see if the nukes still work like I thought.

    • Kalladblog@lemmy.world
      42·
      6 months ago

      That’s an optimistic outlook. Given the drastically shifting political landscape, do you really think the clock will still be standing in 200 years?