(July 15, 2009 at 3:23 pm)bozo Wrote:(July 15, 2009 at 3:05 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Precisely why we need to keep nukes as long as our enemies have them. If we go down, we take them with us.
So, despite mutually assured destruction, we are still around. Wait til someone goes for it.
And maybe that is why we are .. because the weapons are too damned powerful to seriously considered being used? Maybe MAD isn't as mad as it sounds.
What makes you think the automatic retaliation to a nuclear strike will be 1 or more nuclear strikes?
And if we do go for it so what? It's not like the Earth will give an flying [expletive deleted] ... it will maybe shake and shiver a bit and then a few million years from now another species will be wondering what the strange race that once lived here was truly like.
Kyu
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