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Nukes at dawn

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The Natural Way

06:38 / 12.03.02

Wasn't defending the US. Please don't think that - I'm as scared of them as anyone (particularly at the moment). But, I do accept, in the harsh light of a less stoned day, that I hadn't read the thread as thoroughly as I could've.

And I hate it when people do that, too.

Naked Flame

07:25 / 12.03.02

Whoops- apologies Todd. I missed that one somehow.

alas

10:33 / 12.03.02

back to star wars, and to state the obvious, the other problem is ... erm...it don't and probably won't ever work. but it is fucking expensive. oh, and we've spent basically nothing by comparison to, say, help the former soviet union stabilize and protect its arsenal...

[but i guess nobody's going to argue with the fact that all this is yet another sign of just how fucked up US foreign policy (obviously, I use the term loosely) is... and how serious that level of SNAFU is. What's so irritating is the fact that we call our opponents "cowards" "cruel" "heartless" "using terror against whole populations" and yet we have a name for this--whatyoucallit--"madman strategy.")

POE . . . alas]

rizla mission

12:56 / 12.03.02

Surely the US lost any right to boast about "not striking first" when they blew up Hiroshima?

quote:
"against targets able to withstand nonnuclear attack;

Jeezus. Consider what that might mean for a few minutes.. fuck.

[ 12-03-2002: Message edited by: Rizla Year Zero ]

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

15:22 / 12.03.02

I really don't think that a nuclear strike is in the future for these countries. It's a scary thought, but I really don't think the U.S. would try something like this if they didn't think they could hide it. It's a scare tactic, nothing more.

With my handy globe, I see that an attack on Syria, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia would be awfully close to Israel and Palestine, to the point where no matter what warhead used, winds could easily carry radiation into that area. Not even the U.S. government is so stupid that it thinks it could get away with something like that and not piss off a great many people. And we are far from invulnerable to these people. A retaliation could easily be the detonation of a nuclear device in a major city.

Rev. Wright

08:18 / 13.03.02

Response to above, from further above:

quote: I may be wrong, but one thing that has come to my attention today with regards who fires first, is the term 'Mini Nukes'. Cute, huh?
Basically what appears to be the situation is that a first strike scenario would involve 'bunker busters', small tactical nuclear devices, on bombs with uranium armour peircing heads. All very nice, coz they even admit to wanting to cut down the fallout on these new bombs. Lovely, cheers.

Solves the Israel problem.

Baz Auckland

23:52 / 10.12.02

From today: US Warns Iraq: We'll Nuke You!

The United States reminded Iraq and other countries on Tuesday that it was prepared to use nuclear weapons if necessary to respond to an attack from weapons of mass destruction.

The six-page strategy document says deterring attacks with the threat of "overwhelming force" is an essential element in protecting America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction, also known as WMD.

"The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force -- including through resort to all our options -- to the use of WMD against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies," the strategy report said.

In that letter, the United States threatened the "severest consequences" if Iraq were to use chemical or biological weapons against the United States, destroy Kuwaiti oil fields or participate in terrorism.

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