(June 2, 2012 at 10:52 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: America went all out because of Russia, Russia went all out because of America. Both sides wanted to prove their supremacy.
We tested alittle for the sake of testing it and proving we could as did other countries.
I don't understand Frances motives for going overboard on the testing, they launched over 300 times. It doesn't make much sense.
Yes, America and Russia were in direct competition, that pushed both of them to launch so many times. But the question of why France went all out is in my opinion just the same as both America and Russia. They don't test them to prove their supremacy, they test them because they need to know exactly what they're dealing with. Moros went through this in one of his previous posts. The fact that France have launched more times than the UK, or Pakistan or wherever else just tells me that they have had more resources (or a willingness to use those resources) to put into testing nuclear devices.
