Nutty, LW and others:
From Wikipedia:
Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military, scientific or technological goal. This has been done on
test sites on land or waters owned, controlled or leased from the owners by one of the eight nuclear nations: the
United States, the
Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom,
France,
China,
India,
Pakistan and
North Korea, or has been done on or over ocean sites far from
territorial waters. There have been 2,121 tests done since the first in July 1945, involving 2,476 nuclear devices.
As of 1993, worldwide, 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) have been conducted with a total yield of 545 megaton (Mt): 217 Mt from pure fission and 328 Mt from bombs using fusion
Can't help but think, leftover from the dismantling of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, if Ukraine had found, or might find in some obscure warehouse some left over pits and explosive lenses and detonators and the other hardware needed to rebuild some functioning devices and a means of delivery to the krimlin, that putler & co would be most unlikely to prosecute their special military operation in the first instance or continue their Russia Federation's murderous rampage into Ukraine and the potential threat into Eastern Europe.
Deterrence works...to a fashion...but better but most unlikely that all nations and nutters and loony's renounce nuclear weapons and warfare and special military operations.
However, in the absence of such renunciation, I am reminded of an expression: walk quietly and carry a big stick and in the special case of putler a really big stick as that seems to be all that putler respects.
Some 520 atmospheric nuclear detonations and 545 megatons yield has not been worldwide catastrophic so a few hypothetical megatons if unleashed in putler's way is hardly going to be a major environmental disaster. LW...stay calm...take your meds...it's all hypothetical.
DoT