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On 27/08/2024 17:26, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:36:25 -0400, Cryptoengineer
> <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/26/2024 2:49 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 8/26/2024 11:34 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>>>>> On 25 Aug 2024 15:22:34 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> For Apollo-Soyuz, the Soviets made up some adaptor boxes that went
>>>>>> from =
>>>>> the
>>>>>> American space suit connections to the Russian ones (as well as the =
>>>>> adaptor
>>>>>> ring to connect the two capsules).  I am surprised this is not a =
>>>>> solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sadly, the Soviets (and their technology) are long gone.
>>>>
>>>> I beg to differ - Soviet technology is still here. Ukraine has
>>>> destroyed 3336 tanks so far, most of those from the soviet era.
>>>>
>>>> The still use Soviet Soyuz boosters.
>>>>
>>>> One might note that Putin desires the return of the Sovyetky Soyuz.
>>>
>>> Don't forget the 14,000 soviet nuclear weapons.  Thousands of the
>>> battlefield nuclear weapons are being distributed to the Russian troops
>>> right now.  The Ukranian advance is 300 miles inside Russia and they are
>>> not going to burn Moscow this time.
>>
>> While even one nuke in a Western City would be Very Bad News, its
>> legitimate to wonder how many Soviet nuclear bombs are operational.
>>
>> American nukes, and presumably Soviet/Russian ones, have the inital
>> fission element include a neutron generator as part of the ignition.
>> This uses some isotopes of relatively short half-lifes, such as tritium,
>> which gives the bombs a limited shelf life before they need to be
>> refurbished.
> 
> This is true, and I think I should repeat something I have pointed out
> before:
> 
> just because Putin let his Army and Navy decline doesn't mean he let
> his Strategic Missile Forces do the same
> 
> And I agree with others that we really don't want to find out.

Submit, then.