No stop it seriously

Damn, I just made this same comment.

Gerard Monsen Yes, they did salt the Earth but salt was worth more then Gold an Silk and the time. They didnt cover their fields. They simply sprinkled a little as a symbol. Im pretty sure not to much later the Romans farmed that area. Or someone, I cant remember.

Gavin, the point I was making was that the *legend* was that they salted the fields to make it impossible for Carthage to ever come back (or at least not for a long time). Whether they actually did it by using irrigation techniques to bring seawater to all the fields or not is immaterial. I was simply mentioning that the name "salted nuke" comes from this legend and has the same idea - not only destroying an area but making it uninhabitable for a long time. As far as the practicalities of salting the fields, the Romans could be both ingenious and vindictive if they wanted to be. Pure refined salt was certainly expensive, but if they had the will to water the fields with more than plentiful seawater, they had the capability and motivation to do so.

@@gavinstarks2761 Takes a pretty small amount of salt to ruin a field. The problem is that rain washes the salt down into the ground deep enough to be harmless after just a few weeks or months. More than fast enough that planting the next season is perfectly fine.

Siege players*

Fortnite players*

Overwatch players*

*CS:GO players (silver and nova ranks be extra salty)

PUBG players*

Hot Cheese dont forget the ollovoil, rosmarine and pan piping hot

Perfect!

Wtf... that profile pic tho

Super Whisper88 🤣right?!?!

*WHERES THE GODDAMN LAMB SAUCE*

Yeah, could use more pepper.

Salted fusion nukes

*LEGO* NUKES???

Coming soon, to a theatre near you... ***** NUKES RELOADED!!! ***** “This time..... is the LAST time.”

thank you for made me laugh

Wheres tha lams saucsss

Shogun like, pour salt on the ground?

Yeah, the concept was to make the area hard to re-inhabit, though in practice, it was never actually done with salt to an entire community, as using that much salt would have been an unreasonable investment based on the ancient value of salt. Instead, the often burned fields and buildings, maybe ruined a well, and threw some salt on the ground symbolically. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

Valid point. I score it 8/10 Well done

+ Shogun You thought correctly, good sir.

My first thought, glad someone else is with me.

Kerjiffles i cannot tell you how many times i was told that when i was a kid.

Dude this ain’t even funny

@@juvnchy 🗿

Ahh yes comedy

That's salted noob

Want a hand? I have completed designs. 5Mt, 1.1Mt, 400kt, 300kt, 250kt, 110kt, 50kt, 10kt, 1.1kt Pick your poison. Doesn't take much to modify to some sort of salted weapon..

Evan Bell Something a little bigger than the tsarbomba

Tim Tom nah, a baking soda volcano will probably win

Sure, will weigh like 40 tonnes though...

Or it’ll be confiscated by the FBI

Cyandrik You get a like

I bet if you heard you were gonna get nuked, you'd be extra salty.

Janne Aalto yeah we're gonna get nuked sooner or later especially with trump and his anger issues and bad negotiating skills

Golden Heart Lol.. I just want to comment it until I saw yours

Terrible news. Two bombs were walking down the street. One was a salted.

I would love me some spiced nuke for dinner

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse

Why not both?

I think it might be. The same thing is used in cryptography. If you salt a password then you add some letters to it

Per wiki: "The term is derived both from the means of their manufacture, which involves the incorporation of additional elements to a standard atomic weapon, and from the expression "to salt the earth", meaning to render an area uninhabitable for generations."

Only in small-scale operations our passion is used for the betterment of everyone involved... and yeah, most of the time we just like creating dangerous things.

bold words from someone complaining on one of the greatest creations of the 20th century and who has probably taken another to not die from an infection

we are the most negative lifeform that ever excisted....

True

It is easy to destroy things but hard to fix things.

Make sense.I even think the nukes nuked Capital Wasteland were also salted bombs,because...Everyone knows the green sky of capital wasteland,maybe that is due to salted bombs.

Salted nukes: nukes that also increase your blood pressure.

Asst Gunner to bombardier: you missed, idiot. You missed A CITY with A NUKE. YOU IDIOT.

Sebastian Elytron I see u oml

xD

🤣

Oh you cleaver dog😉

Nuclear threats really raise the *steaks* in a conflict, right?

We have salted nukes at home

There are people that are planning to do that.

they were obsessed on making the weapons more destructive than the last that they didn't stop and think whether they should.

Its a radiological bomb, minimal damage to its surroundings but releases massive amounts of radiation making parts of the world uninhabitable.

Some people perfer to destroy the world than the world filled with their enemies.

Joevani Eheng marinate. you don't marinade a steak m8

Kentucky Fried Nukes

Don't encourage them !

Thanks for your existence.

NaCl ---------- NaOH

NaBrO

I can’t get no (reaction)

Too much salt will result in death via high blood pressure and stroke.

Bask in his glow and drink from the water

The division shal come soon

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbNymt1qzZ2rd4E.html

We all must bask in the glory of his light, to await the Great Division.

*pulls out spray 'n pray* We'll see about that...

That's a good point..

I think it could be a bit more politically complicated than that. Imagine the potential condemnation from the populous in a western democratic nation, all the while the military could want the potential uses on even just a smaller tactical level for the assured area denial. Maybe not the most likely scenario, but seems plausible.

I think because salted nukes are still nukes, they are treated the same in terms of how to deal with it. I mean, superpowers would flip out if a small country start stockpiling nukes, regardless of type. And not like superpowers can force other superpowers to destroy their nukes anyways.

na if it was me id want to keep them secret as long as possible. I cant imagine other countries being too happy about someone having an unnecessarily nasty weapon

Well they aren't just for threats, icbms would also be used as retaliation, and in a case where a country is retaliating, they may not want rivalling countries to know all the bells and whistles of their bombs.

I’ve seen you in my dreams

Joelimations n’ stuff and you get a like

You'd be salty if you were literally dying of radiation poisoning

What if I want to die?

This Man You can't! You will always be alive in our dreams... O-o

Gluten-free nukes.

that's what i meant haha

No, I always order my food with extra gluten..

lactos-free nukes.

Spicy nukes

Rachie- Face The universe shouldn't exist.

Master Wong The universe totally should exist. If it didn't, you wouldn't be here whining about how it shouldn't exist.

Err, no, it shouldn’t.

Rob Nel i don't think you noticed the sarcasm

Bose-Einstein it was sarcasm my dude

You don't even need the nuke part. League of Legends is enough.

Bible: God said that we are the salt of the world. KZfaq and Reality: Salted Nukes are the salt of the World.

Digital Pyro don't be salty nobody replied

i like mice

Did you want some salt with that

i.ytimg.com/vi/2IC2kMHZda8/maxresdefault.jpg

"That's what I said. Sodium Chloride."

yummy

It's fattening & I'm on a diet!

Altwerk Vyner Theres always some soy nuke

Damn. So that's why it's still radioactive today.

The Spherical Earth He can't. Even North Korea's elites have to abide by restrictions on Internet access, even though they can get it at all. Barring that, their Internet is funneled through China, who is very well known to spy on their Internet and block social media.

The Spherical Earth lmfao ya got me bro! Made my day

Kil'Jaeden?

RUSSIA ALREADY HAS COBALT BOMB ARMED NUCLEAR TORPEDOES CALLED STATUS 6.

The Spherical Earth lol "my boi KJ"

+ I had to scroll too far for this comment, we need to move you up towards the top.

I thought I was the only one looking for this comment

interesting. get this comment to the top people!

Good ole cold war nostalgia is back

kjpmi oh YEAH? We got a sharknado quadruple ton missile delivery system that can deliver all nukes ever created in under a millisecond! Diharrea is a side effect.

Raymond Narvaez Boom.

Conrad Spoke STRIP THE FLESH! SALT THE WOUND! WUHAHAHA WUHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

As for dangerous in the sense of risk of unwanted massive destruction: see kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pN2hjZhyt5jVZas.html

Grim reaper213w3 because they playing overwatch

Get out.

@@esmooth3983 Don't be salty

No, a dirty bomb is something different. A dirty bomb is NOT nuclear. There is NO nuclear blast. A dirt bomb is a bomb that contain highly radioactive material. Nuclear waste would make a good materiel for dirty bomb. The highly radioactive material is packed around a regular explosive such as C-4 or HMX or something. The blast just spreads radiation all over the place. People die days or weeks after the event from radiation poisoning. A salted nuke would be the ultimate dirty bomb.

Meh, it pays the bills.

Shhhhhhh! We can't let them see this video!!

So?

MisterCorrin what’s it salting it with... ...the now radioactive extra material that the bomb was salted with. But it’s not named after the practice of salting the earth with sodium chloride so as to make the soil inhospitable for growing. Sodium chloride isn’t something you would salt a nuclear weapon with. It’s called a salted bomb because you’re sprinkling in, so to speak, a relatively tiny amount of extra stuff which isn’t necessary for the bomb to work. Like salt is something extra you sprinkle on food which is optional.

Yeah, I knew it wasn't literally tablesalt, just thought the reference was to "making it so nothing will grow here for years to come" - likening it, not actually saying it was the same thing. Thats why I commented; admitting a TIL moment rather than arguing against the videos reasoning.

Even uncontrollable by Superman!

OHHHHHHH

But they make up Pewd's army. You would be stating 6 yr olds

Estefano Nicolas Barragan Camacho very minor spoiler. Definitely still watch the movie because the doomsday machine is part of the premise of the story not part of the resolution

And it's a movie absolutely worth watching. Peter Sellers is hilarious. Also, no really related, but his work with The Goon Show is also among the funniest things I've ever heard.

I just had fun with the fact that he mentioned that Cobalt bomb and the movie. (I suppose what lacked the last comment is a "lol,lmao,😂" within).

oliverwilson11 A nice point Mr. oliverwilson11

Imago Nah are you fam

Wanna be?

Waltham1892 thought it said send nudes

YOU ALREADY ARE

Gnome Watcher Alright, how about you step up and make a better video.

Kajuice You don't need to do better to give criticism. Otherwise, nothing could be criticized.

What terminology?

Thank you, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who knew, and some examples would be how he made out that there is a difference between "atomic bombs" and "fusion bombs", which is actually a pretty common mistake unfortunately, but the truth is that there are three different types of bombs, pure fission, fusion boosted, and thermonuclear, and they are ALL atomic bombs, they are all nuclear bombs, they all work by manipulation of atoms and their nuclei and the terms "atomic"and "nuclear" are blanket terms that apply to all three of them, and of course all three can be used to make "salted" weapons. Also, it's incorrect to say that the neutrons produced by the fusion reaction in a thermonuclear bomb are not used, they almost always are used (in all but the so called "clean bombs" anyway) in that they are absorbed by a depleted uranium "tamper" situated around the fusion secondary stage body, and even though depleted uranium is inert and non fissile (as it is almost entirely the U-238 isotope) it absorbs so many neutrons that it is forced to fission anyway, and this is actually where 60%+/- of the yield of bombs like Castle Bravo came from. Of course there are the "clean bombs" too (which came about more or less because of the radiological disaster that was Castle Bravo) which actually got the vast majority of their yield from fusion itself, with only enough fission involved to get the reaction up and going (the famous three stage 50 megaton tsar bomba was such a device) and therefore produced very little contaminating radiation. That was far more detailed than it probably needed to be, and I could go on and on with far more detail, but I think this is enough for now...

**Facepalms on Gnome Watcher for his stupidity.*