[myknowledge]

Australia should develop some long-range ICBMs deployable on road-mobile TELs like the Russian SS-27 'Stalin' (RT-2UTTH Topol-M)

Or the DF-41

I would call it the Boomerang ICBM

[HiTech RedNeck]

Now they bring the barbie to you.

[Bernard]

So would this be the end of Pax Americana? If Australia goes down this path, I wonder how far behind them Japan will be. All they have to do is look at how the Obama administration treated Poland and the Czech Republic to get a look at the future.

[Swiss]

**On that basis, both Sweden and Japan could develop nuclear weapons within a few years.**

If Sweden gets the bomb we will never shut up Freeper WesternCulture about how great Sweden is.

[Abathar]

"I would call it the Boomerang ICBM"

Really? I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to launch a nuke named after something that turns around mid-flight and returns back to you...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The simple fact is that the truth of nuclear weapons is that they *are* realistic as weapons of war. A nuclear weapon use does not guarantee a worldwide conflagration. And nuclear proliferation insures that eventually they will be used again.

But there is a way to stop this from happening.

What stopped the Cold War from happening was a theory called “Mutually Assured Destruction”, or MAD. It meant that no matter who started a war, or how, it would end with both the US and the Soviet Union devastated.

Importantly, it worked. So with relative peace now between the US and Russia, why not *expand* on the concept of MAD, to the rest of the world, to prevent other countries from using nuclear weapons?

The way this would work would be for the US, and maybe Russia, to guarantee that *any* nation that used nuclear weapons, even at the point of being militarily defeated, would be *annihilated*.

This means to use neutron bomb nuclear weapons, that would kill all life in the country that used a nuclear weapon, though not destroying any of their buildings or contaminating their lands. And then to give all that they had owned to the “victim” nation, as reparations.

For example, were Iran to send a nuclear missile against Israel, whether or not it reached its target and detonated, the US, and maybe Russia would guarantee the use of neutron bombs over the whole of Iran, so there would be no living thing left alive in that nation.

Then all of Iran would become the property of Israel, to do with as they wanted.

All this would require, as a threat, is both that the US, and maybe Russia had neutron weapons, and that any nation that could be attacked, would need to guard its borders from anyone attempting to smuggle in covert weapons.

The final result would hopefully be the prevention of nuclear war, even if limited.

[PghBaldy]

If it will take 20 years (as the last sentence says) they should start immediately.

[joelt]

They should get the Kiwi’s to go in on it with them. They have a common interest it would seem.

[Little Ray]

Or maybe the Wirraway ICBM?

That transporter looks like it would make a heck of an RV. Do you think it will fit on a normal road?