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What do you think about Nuclear Weapons?

What do you think about Nuclear Weapons?


I think they are passé. There is no reason to develop better ones or for that matter make more of them.

I can think of one reason to make better ones and that is to blow up asteroids or meteors that threaten the Earth with impact.


A nuclear bomb is not going to scare a terrorist because terrorist use different tactics and use the community as their shield/catalyst.

So is there any reason why someone would approve new better nuclear bombs?


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Reply #27 Top
@ fuzzy,

XX, I meant this: http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf
(by searching for that link I created a new thread on the msgboard... not yet awake I suppose..., better get some coffee)
Reply #28 Top
George W Bush wants small nukes and has already asked for funding from us peaceful Americans to develope more varieties. Seems as if George is never very happy unless he's got a new toy to play with....in someone else's backyard of course. >
Reply #29 Top
Why doesn't he use all the nukes he got from Saddam?

Oh, they didn't find any did they...
Reply #30 Top
dont be silly we all know that if saddam still would be in charge of iraq sooner or later he would have done someting verry stupid and destructive.
Plus now germany and france must pay normal prices for their oil(and not with cheap verry cheap medicine)

as for nukes i love m
Reply #31 Top
It aint the nukes gonna kill us all....
noticed all the bizarre weather patterns in the last few years?

Ahh but I digress... Sorry... yeah, nukes suck! Solar power's the answer, not nuke power. Not clean enough.

Nanobot's and immortality? Glad we don't have the technology to make this possible yet. In this world? No thanks....




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Reply #32 Top
Ahh but I digress... Sorry... yeah, nukes suck! Solar power's the answer, not nuke power.

Let's hear it for for Solar Powered weapons!
Clean and quick destruction at next to no cost!!



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Reply #33 Top
They can give me that money, for what they have built those nukes. That would be more intelligent than just making a bunch of them and pretending to be the "we-have-nukes-so-you-need-to-follow-our-orders" men.
Reply #34 Top
@Wombat




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Reply #35 Top
#30 by Citizen Brusilov dont be silly we all know that if saddam still would be in charge of iraq sooner or later he would have done someting verry stupid and destructive.


Nastradomus? that you dude?

Reply #36 Top
........... must be uncomfortable straddling that fence.......




I have a severe chaffe... and allot of metal splinters to pull out.

anyway, STOP BUILDING/IMPROVING NUKES!!! (unless for destroying Meteors and Astoroids... and maybe evil aliens)
Reply #37 Top
Nutron Bombs, that is what I am betting they will go for. Why destroy all the buildings when you can just kill all the living things and keep the buildings, machinery, transportation and everything else that is not sitting right at ground zero?
Reply #38 Top
If nuclear weaponry would mean the end of mankind, it would be a blessing for this planet. Ofcourse, half the planet would be dead, but still.
Reply #39 Top
craeonics, that is rather sad to read...
Reply #40 Top
craeonics, that is rather sad to read...


not really. man has done more to harm this planet then any other form of life. things like pullution, cloning, cutting down rain forests, genetic research, mutatations... all of that man has done or is doing and the planet is suffering.

the planet would be better off without man. give me the button, i will be happy to push it as long as the first nuke hits california.
Reply #41 Top
would be better off without man. give me the button, i will be happy to push it as long as the first nuke hits california.

Rather an extreme reaction to the Michael Jackson allegations!
pullution,

What??




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Reply #42 Top
had nothing to do with MJ. has to do with I dislike california.

Just a joke.

pollution - spelling. You know - greenhouse gases and such?
Reply #43 Top
What is sad, that for a species that is supposedly "conscious" of what's going on and is fabled to have the ability to "think", the only thing we care about is amassing more and more wealth, at the expense of not only other people, but the planet as well.

Or you could say that I have seen so much death and destruction on the news and in the papers over the years, that I've become quite the misanthrope.
Reply #44 Top
No what is sad is giving into the thought that we are below the ability to evole to the point that we understand we create reality.

All we have to do is decide we want the best reality for everyone no matter what color, sexual orientation, nationality, faith....

I find it sad that someone who can see what you see and feel what you feel has found them self at the point that they feel the death of humanity would be the best thing for anything or reason...

thats all...
Reply #45 Top
we also have to learn and grasp that there is only one Earth and everything negative we do on this planet to the planet has an additive effect. Frankly I can not fo rthe life of me figure out how people can ignore or accept the fact that we have to list animals we cause the exticntion of.

Lets take a look at something for a moment...

Trees are cut everyday removing the filtering system for Carbon Dioxide and some other Green House gases. The land is turned into cattle ranches, and in time the rain washes away all of the nutriants. They flow into the Oceans causing havoke with Ocean life, be it fish, mammal or plant. In turn the building Gases cause the temp of the Air to rise and Ice mass melts causing large amounts of fridged fresh water to flow into the oceans coveyors which will cause them to shut down causing an new Ice age. There has been border line proof discovered that the Earth not only has had extended Ice masses durring past Ice ages, but the Whole planet was in fact totally covered with ice which was 6 - 10 feet thick at it's thinest points, the area around the Equator.

We know this and yet we ignore it and give all kinds of stupid reasoning as to why we should ignore the facts...

There are many other things we know and do the same thing with.

But, at some point we will come around to accepting the truth and acting upon it in the correct manner....

Money isn't the root of all evil, it is at the root of most stupidity though in a global aspect. But it doesn't end there, Nationalism also plays a hand it this because ones nation has to be well off for the people to be well off, and yet the social structure of nations is such that a few have to be really really wealthy for anyone else to have enough to live beyond poverty, and for many more to live in poverty.

The social dynamic and the social contract are defunct, nationalism is defunct and governments have not kept pace with society and the human race at large.

Something, many things, need to be changed, to what exactly id o not have a clue. But what is in place might have worked in the past but it didn't keep pace and it is serioualy broken and we will find that more and more as time speeds ahead and it falls further behind...

WWIII will come about and it will revolve around money and the good old hard line nationalism of old. I would like to think that will not come about, but the steps down that path are picking up pace everyday and the move faster each new year.

But, with all of that, the more people who give up, the less people are there to support the changes that need to come about...

anyway...

I'll go back to being ineffectual and inane...
Reply #47 Top
pollution - spelling. You know - greenhouse gases and such


Well I CAN spell and even understand the meaning of the words ..... 'HATE CALIFORNIA' .... now there is a message from someone with a serious problem, nukes are no joking matter.

Or you could say that I have seen so much death and destruction on the news and in the papers over the years, that I've become quite the misanthrope

It's much more attention getting when you see it close up and personal crae.
Governments really have no need of nukes .... certain factions do very well with Semtex or C4, machettes and even airliners ... the Pol Pot regime made extensive use of commom garden variety hammers!
Nuclear weapons destroyed the Soviet Bloc without being used in anger, the sheer amount of money involved in keeping up with the West did the job.
Mind you, the number of nuclear reactors sitting in rusting hulls on the bottom of the Murmansk Naval Base is more frightening than any weapon.
ASIO reports (CIA, MI5, NSA, insert your own choice!)on the number of 'missing' warheads from the old Soviet can get one's attention as well, obviously there are plenty of disciples of free trade in Eastern Europe.
'Owning' a nuclear arsenal is a status symbol .... just ask the French why the need one.
Me?
Cynical!!
Damn straight.



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Reply #48 Top
I'll go back to being ineffectual and inane...

I like being 'ineffectual and inane' if this is what it means.



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Reply #49 Top
Well I CAN spell and even understand the meaning of the words ..... 'HATE CALIFORNIA' .... now there is a message from someone with a serious problem, nukes are no joking matter.


hey it was a joke (about california)

I know nukes are no laughing matter. the thought of nuclear war scares the **** out of me.

Probably because I live in a town where we produce titanium. One of the only plants left.
Reply #50 Top
it won't be nukes, it will be bio or chem weapons that get the largest part of the planets human population...

that or something deep in the jungles that will end up coming out once we cut down trees making a path to it...

some government will get it, after claming the village or city that it wipes out was in fact hit by Ebola or some such, and either weaponize it, or not and it will end up getting loose. Hell the Anthrax used in the mail was from the US Army labs... neat huh?