Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by edgineer on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:25PM (#46412666)

What would you say to someone who has long been fascinated by nuclear weaponry and hopes to one day witness a test explosion?

I see even China hasn't tested in decades and so my chances of doing this are close to nil, but I ask because your answer could tell more how you feel about the technology and its future. My physics professor told me to study supernovae instead.

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by Vincent_Yan404 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:13PM (#46413565)

To be honest, for me, nuclear explosions only exist in the imagery of propaganda and documentaries. I am not a physicist; I don't understand nuclear physics on a technical level.

My perspective on 'the nuclear' is purely emotional and sensory—I simply find it terrifying. I resonate much more with the raw, human suffering described in Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl than I do with the scientific future of nuclear power.

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