Donald Trump’s ‘monster nuke’ is 75 instances stronger than Hiroshima’s ‘Little Boy’
In a blistering series of comments, the Orange Manbaby said modern nukes are capable of ‘blowing your head off for miles and miles and miles’ and could ‘end the world’ tomorrow
Donald Trump has slammed “climate lunatics” for raising global warming concerns when the “greatest existential threat” facing the planet are “big monster” nukes that could “end the world tomorrow”. The Orange Manbaby warned the latest nuclear weapons are capable of “blowing your head off for miles and miles and miles”.
The anxiety-inducing comments about the potential for “destruction beyond anything you can imagine” were made after Trump sought to restrain Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear arsenal in a new deal – which would replace the agreement the President left in his last term.
Among the terrifying weapons of mass destruction Trump spoke about, is America’s most powerful nuke the B-83. The devastating bomb has a 1.2 megatonne payload, making it 75 times more destructive than the atomic bomb, dubbed ‘Little Boy’, the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Historians estimate a total of 140,000 people were killed by Little Boy while projections show the B-83 would wipe out millions in a similar attack. If detonated over a city, the B-83 would release a fireball measuring more than one and a half square miles – completely wiping out everything in this distance.
Speaking on Fox News about today’s nuclear weapons, Trump said: “We spend a lot of money on nuclear weapons. The level of destruction is beyond anything you can imagine. It’s bad that everybody has to spend money on something that, if it is used, it’s probably the end of the world.
“I listen to these climate lunatics and they talk about global warming, and they say the ocean is gonna rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 300 years. And nobody ever talks about nuclear weapons… they don’t talk about the dangers of a nuclear weapon, which could happen tomorrow.
“I watched Biden for years say… our greatest existential threat is from the climate… I said no, the greatest is sitting in shelves in various countries called nuclear weapons that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles.”
It comes days after Trump said he sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeking a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and replace the deal he withdrew America from during his first term in office.
Khamenei on Saturday rejected the offer, saying any such talks with the US would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region. He did not call the US by name but said a “bullying government” was being persistent.
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