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26-04-04, 05:25 AM | #1 | |
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What role do nuclear weapons play in 21st-century military policy?
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03-05-04, 02:07 PM | #2 |
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rogue nations with nuclear weapons are always dangerous because they tend to sell the technology to the highest bidder in order to sustain themselves. north korea is one example. pakistan is another. people (generally terrorists or nations who are aspiring to have nuclear capability) are willing to pay big money on the black market for nukes, especially portable warheads. in my opinion, nuclear weapons are an effective deterrent as long as they lay in the hands of responsible nations. while i think the US is a responsible nation, russia is certainly isn't. russia's stockpile on nuclear warheads is probably bigger than america's. yet in russia, scientists from the soviet era are selling the technology and materials on the black market for millions while the russian government sits back and do nothing. in fact, bush recently committed to putin $10 billion to get this problem under control. as for rogue nations like north korea, they sold nuclear technology to iran and syria. pakistan is widely believed to have been libya's largest supplier for parts and manuals on how to build nuclear bombs.
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Pakistan acquired the nuke bomb to protect against India, likewise, India has a nuke bomd to protect themselves form pakistan! to my knowledge, pakistan is the only muslum nation to have a nuke so far. About North Korea, citizen there are so antagonised by "communists" thinking by their leader, even though he rides in luxury cars. Quote:
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Do you truly believe that anyone holding nuke warheads are truly responsible? No nation is responsible enough to be entrusted with the care of such a deadly weapon or just to yank the chain WMD. Just the fact to have a nuke, only one nuke is provocation enough Either it's US or Russia or North Korea or pakistan, it's still a weapon that will do damage if launched. No Country should have such a capibility! Quote:
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Armed peace was/is not a solution. to me the real terrorists are the one claiming to go to war for WMD when they have some of their own! Just so you know, with the right connections and the right information access, anybody could build a nuke. Just a thought |
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"John Aristotle Phillips is no stranger to the spotlight. As an undergraduate at Princeton University in the late 1970S, he demonstrated how to design an atomic bomb using information available in public documents. That drew the attention of the CIA, FBI, foreign governments and Hollywood." he gave a speech i attended in connecticut in '79, and he was trailed by spooks and corporate types from the likes of the big nuclear divisions of westinghouse and abb etc. he claimed, and it was generally agreed to by experts who read his paper on how to do it that almost anybody could design an effective bomb using information commonly held in larger libraries (this was pre-web). he was a smart guy but he was only a sophomore at the time, no post-doc he, not even a phd. in the following 30 years it hasn't gotten any more difficult to achieve. my guess is that cad/cam has made it a lot easier. there are no safe nuclear bombs nor safe countries with them, not even ours. - js. |
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just because the bush administration choose to look the other way for a time because musharraf is helping them, to some extent, to capture al-kaida militants doesn't mean that pakistan is in any way a responsible nation. and india has much to be concerned about. pakistan is too unstable. pakistan continues to finance islamic terrorists that kill indian civilians on a regular basis. the global war on terror created a surge of radical islam in pakistan. can you imagine what will happen should islamic fundamentalists come to power in pakistan? the way these two countries publically taunt each other with nukes is stupid. imo neither of them should have such weapons because neither countries are responsible enough to have such power. Quote:
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And Israel IS? Schmook, you have just expressed the best rational for the US invading Israel I've ever read. Talk about WMD stolen from the US...............
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