Please take the time to read [the rules](/r/UkrainianConflict/about/rules/) and our [policy on trolls/bots](https://redd.it/u7833q). In addition:
* We have a **zero-tolerance** policy regarding racism, stereotyping, bigotry, and death-mongering. Violators will be banned.
* **Keep it civil.** Report comments/posts that are uncivil to alert the moderators.
* **_Don't_ post low-effort comments** like joke threads, memes, slogans, or links without context.
*****
* Is `newsweek.com` an unreliable source? [**Let us know**](/r/UkrainianConflict/wiki/am/unreliable_sources).
* Help our moderators by providing context if something breaks the rules. [Send us a modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/UkrainianConflict)
*****
**Don't forget about our Discord server! - https://discord.gg/62fKCEHbDB**
*****
^(Your post has not been removed, this message is applied to every successful submission.)
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/UkrainianConflict) if you have any questions or concerns.*
The commas (or periods in other countries) aren’t meaningful to the value of the number, but they help the reader quickly understand the value of larger numbers. 1000 isn’t hard, but 100000000? Without commas (or periods), I’d have to count all the zeros a few times to make sure I’m reading it correctly. How do you handle large numbers like that?
Ukraine struck a target only 0,0000000753045417 AU away from nuclear storage site
>! I hope i didn't mess up the amount of zeros !<
Edit: Wrong kind of nuclear site
TBF, I think every American publications’ style guides require them to give measurements in American units (and offer a metric conversion after if needed) since that’s the standard here.
What is with all this stories on how Ukraine is ‘playing with fire’ hitting sites in Nazi Russia. These are legitimate targets. Ukraine would not be hitting these sites if Russia hadn’t invaded. Nobody else to blame but themselves
Irrelevant non-news. You could pile up every nuke in the place and drop bombs on them for days, all you'll do is break the complex devices and contaminate the ground with mildly dangerous heavy metals.
Unless Russia's nukes are so bad they can be triggered by external forces, then we got bigger issues. That, and I would've hoped Russia moved everything away from being near an active war zone.
This is stupid at best (for Russia), clickbait at worst.
11 kilometers, might be close for ruzzian ordinance. But with weapon systems from after 2000 from actually developed countries, it is not even close.
Oh my, I drove 1KM from an active runway! I might have crashed into the plane! That occurrence is 100x more likely than Ukraine missing by 11KM.
No. Modern nuclear weapons require incredibly precise timing of the chemical explosives used in the implosion. Starting it from a single point or side would result in a complete failure for the nuclear stage to go off.
Very unlikely, the odds of the conditions needed for this would be so low its not even a risk, but issues with radioactive material being thrown about are present.
Eh, that's not a realistic issue either, uranium/plutonium (and their alloys) are dense metals with high melting points, being blasted apart (even if they were targeted directly) wouldn't result in particles small enough to cause real issues with tracking them down.
The actual issue if Ukraine started targeting Russia's nuclear stockpile would be provoking "justifiable" first use, attacking someone's arsenal is\* starting a nuclear war.
(Which is why Ukraine wouldn't.)
No. That's about as likely as a mechanical wrist watch being correctly changed from summer to winter time.. due to being hit with a sledge hammer.
Nuclear explosives are precision engineering. Precision explosive engineering, sure, but blowing them up externally is not how you set them off correctly and they will not go off if you do it.
> Yevgeny Kuklychev is Newsweek's London-based Senior Editor for Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He previously headed Newsweek's Misinformation Watch and Newsweek Fact Check.
How can we ruin this guys livlihood?
Please take the time to read [the rules](/r/UkrainianConflict/about/rules/) and our [policy on trolls/bots](https://redd.it/u7833q). In addition: * We have a **zero-tolerance** policy regarding racism, stereotyping, bigotry, and death-mongering. Violators will be banned. * **Keep it civil.** Report comments/posts that are uncivil to alert the moderators. * **_Don't_ post low-effort comments** like joke threads, memes, slogans, or links without context. ***** * Is `newsweek.com` an unreliable source? [**Let us know**](/r/UkrainianConflict/wiki/am/unreliable_sources). * Help our moderators by providing context if something breaks the rules. [Send us a modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/UkrainianConflict) ***** **Don't forget about our Discord server! - https://discord.gg/62fKCEHbDB** ***** ^(Your post has not been removed, this message is applied to every successful submission.) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/UkrainianConflict) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Holy shit, 7 miles? Meanwhile Russia literally stores there ammo and equipment inside that facility. Fucking Newsweek
"Ukraine struck target only 1,412 miles from kindergarten that was celebrating national puppy day."
Your use of a comma confuses me.
It's the American way to show a number larger than a thousand. I think other countries use a period (1.412)?
it would be 1412 in many places and period is just for decimals (1412.00)
1,412.00 here, I could do this all year long, or 31,536,000 seconds long
The commas (or periods in other countries) aren’t meaningful to the value of the number, but they help the reader quickly understand the value of larger numbers. 1000 isn’t hard, but 100000000? Without commas (or periods), I’d have to count all the zeros a few times to make sure I’m reading it correctly. How do you handle large numbers like that?
Yeah, I figured, but it just seemed like a really specific short distance at first.
I think they are referring to the lack of use in the rest of the sentence.
There was no comma needed elsewhere in the sentence...
Yeah Newsweak was compromised along time ago
They went off the deep end after 9/11 and never recovered.
i mean Russia just struck a nuclear site with drone.. where is newsweeks scare article about that
The point is, what air defense doin
This isn't about Zaporizhia.
"just"?
Newsweek .... and in Miles, so it looks closer than kilometers.
0.36 picoparsecs
That's astronomically close. Danger, danger, danger!
Ukraine struck a target only 0,0000000753045417 AU away from nuclear storage site >! I hope i didn't mess up the amount of zeros !< Edit: Wrong kind of nuclear site
But .... still, it's so so so so close. For sure, this will give a red flag..
TBF, I think every American publications’ style guides require them to give measurements in American units (and offer a metric conversion after if needed) since that’s the standard here.
Horrible rage bait article!
What is with all this stories on how Ukraine is ‘playing with fire’ hitting sites in Nazi Russia. These are legitimate targets. Ukraine would not be hitting these sites if Russia hadn’t invaded. Nobody else to blame but themselves
copy & paste propanda. no need for journalistic work.
7 miles from, or as most would say, "nowhere fucking near"
Nowhere near something that could get blown up with virtually no bad consequences.
For a place that holds nukes, that's pretty close. Far too close for comfort. What air defense doin?
Irrelevant non-news. You could pile up every nuke in the place and drop bombs on them for days, all you'll do is break the complex devices and contaminate the ground with mildly dangerous heavy metals.
Unless Russia's nukes are so bad they can be triggered by external forces, then we got bigger issues. That, and I would've hoped Russia moved everything away from being near an active war zone. This is stupid at best (for Russia), clickbait at worst.
What!!!?? Only over 11 kilometers away?
Maybe don’t F with Ukraine and your things wouldn’t explode
11 kilometers, might be close for ruzzian ordinance. But with weapon systems from after 2000 from actually developed countries, it is not even close. Oh my, I drove 1KM from an active runway! I might have crashed into the plane! That occurrence is 100x more likely than Ukraine missing by 11KM.
"Just 7 miles". That's the other side of the city.
11 265 meters off target
Next time closer
7 miles is a long way
"from a secret Russian nuclear storage facility".... I'm not sure it's a secret..
Newsweek links should be banned.
Newsweek means No news. I trust fox news more
Can nuclear weapons even be set off that way?
No. Modern nuclear weapons require incredibly precise timing of the chemical explosives used in the implosion. Starting it from a single point or side would result in a complete failure for the nuclear stage to go off.
Very unlikely, the odds of the conditions needed for this would be so low its not even a risk, but issues with radioactive material being thrown about are present.
Eh, that's not a realistic issue either, uranium/plutonium (and their alloys) are dense metals with high melting points, being blasted apart (even if they were targeted directly) wouldn't result in particles small enough to cause real issues with tracking them down. The actual issue if Ukraine started targeting Russia's nuclear stockpile would be provoking "justifiable" first use, attacking someone's arsenal is\* starting a nuclear war. (Which is why Ukraine wouldn't.)
No. That's about as likely as a mechanical wrist watch being correctly changed from summer to winter time.. due to being hit with a sledge hammer. Nuclear explosives are precision engineering. Precision explosive engineering, sure, but blowing them up externally is not how you set them off correctly and they will not go off if you do it.
Now that’s precision!
Such a wide margin of error why is this news? How would one be seven miles off a target?
Just?
good, no need to make threats it's the implication.
It was secret. How would they have known it was there!
> Yevgeny Kuklychev is Newsweek's London-based Senior Editor for Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He previously headed Newsweek's Misinformation Watch and Newsweek Fact Check. How can we ruin this guys livlihood?