(July 16, 2009 at 10:35 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(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
Interesting that you only go so far as to say " maybe "...that's not like you. You show doubt. Progress of sorts.
I think it is more probable that a nuclear strike against a country would produce a retaliatory nuclear strike, either by the retalliating country if it had them or by a support country that did. We are both speculating which is more probable.
So the threat of a nuclear war doesn't worry you? Strange indeed.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
