If they do they will see my bumper sticker and stand down...
(sarc)
Posted on 04/27/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
When Dr. Marcel Junod flew over the blasted remains of Hiroshima in an American plane in September 1945, he could not recognize what lay beneath him.
“The centre of the city was a sort of white patch, flattened and smooth like the palm of a hand. Nothing remained,” he wrote. Junod, a delegate from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) newly arrived in Japan, could not identify the shapes of buildings, but he realized that the landscape of war had changed forever.
Junod’s diaries end with a call for an outright ban on nuclear weapons. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has made that call louder and louder as the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their descendants have paid the long-term price of radiation sickness, and as the stark human, economic and environmental costs of the next nuclear weapons blast have become clearer.
It was hard for that call to be heard in the Cold War era of mutually assured destruction and the stockpiling of warheads deemed essential to national survival. Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized, and powerful states remain convinced that a nuclear security umbrella is vital to national defense, domestic prestige and geopolitical clout.
We are in a new nuclear age, insecure and uncertain, with hair-trigger sensitivities and the constant risk of accidents. It’s a time when the argument that nuclear weapons help keep global peace is ever more questionable.
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When nuclear weapons are outlawed only outlaws will have nuclear weapons.
Very nice and very true. I say the more nuclear weapons in the hands of the good countries, the more bad guys will fear for their existence.
thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people know how to make nuclear bombs... their work is well documented, and not difficult to obtain..how do you propose eliminating nuclear weapons? eliminating the people who know how to build them? eliminating the research documents?
whose to make sure that the process doesn’t become rediscovered?
Then a Pic of an Train Mullah with a Radiation Symbol and the Liberal Going "Okay!"
Exactly. Deterrence has kept the major powers at relative peace for 70 years now because of it, but it requires you be armed in order to deter. Otherwise Putin will just laugh, and then he will win.
Well, if Japan hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbor to drag us into World War II, they wouldn’t have been bombed.
Why do liberals want to ban certain weapons but not others? What are they saying? That its OK to kill the enemy using conventional weapons or conventional bombing, but just don’t do it with nuclear weapons???
Sometimes, evil rises to the level of nuking.
Not often, but not never.
unless of course Pakistan gets overrun by the death religion. im not smart enough to know what contingencies are in place to secure the nukes
[ When nuclear weapons are outlawed only outlaws will have nuclear weapons. ]
Or they will develop something far worse like biological plague weapons...
or anti-matter weapons, or any number of nasty things.
Of an Iranian Mullah!
Fail on my Android's Part.
Only if the good countries will use them. I doubt our leader have the gravitas.
On a larger scale, the nuke argument mirrors the personal arms argument... to some extent. Maybe it would be better if nukes had never been invented... or firearms. But since they have been, the good guys need to have them, because no one is keeping them away from the bad guys.
I’ve made the same argument about lawyers as about handguns. Maybe not a good thing they’ve been invented, but since they have, it’s better to have some in the family. Works for nukes too.
It’s interesting that, supposedly, Russia asked the US if it would be interested in a joint action to prevent China from getting nukes. Maybe my history is bad, and it’s a bum reference, but if it’s true, it gets me thinking about possibilities of alternate history.
They need to bone up on the bombings of Dresden, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Hanover. Also the fire bombing of Japan’s paper cities. The H-bombs were just more efficient.
There is a nuke-free world. It’s everywhere outside a sphere with a radius of about 70 light years centered on the earth.
Actually, the very presence of nuclear weapons on both sides and the fear of mutually assured destruction (MAD) was why we haven’t had a full-scale world war since 1945, because both sides knew of the enormous consequences of one. We came very close in 1962, and both sides have vowed never to reach that point ever again.
Personally I think we should have gone ahead with Project Thor kinetic bombardment system (aka. Rods From God).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
If they do they will see my bumper sticker and stand down...
(sarc)
Those auto-correct programs are a pain in the butt. I prefer the red underline of the presumed misspell or mistake, which lets you choose to correct or not.
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