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Will there be a nuclear strike in your lifetime?
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 (June 5, 2017 at 5:09 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Lets bring back air raid drills with duck and cover. That was such a fun time in grade school. my grade school had frequent sonic booms from jet fighters on training rattled the kids, staff, and the building good The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
 
Here's an interesting question for you all:
Let's say you were President of the United States and you received word that a foreign country (I don't know, say Russia, for example) was planning to launch an attack on your country with nuclear weapons. Would you have any problem with striking them first knowing that so many civilians would die?
assuming intel has a good idea if mostly red or mostly blue areas are targeted, I'm thinking it would turn into a political thing
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
RE: Will there be a nuclear strike in your lifetime?
June 5, 2017 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2017 at 3:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
That depends on whether the information about the impending attack is credible and independently verifiable by other major nuclear powers. For now the most important other power that must be privately (although not necessarily publically)convinced is Russia. Soon it will also be china.
The typical American attitude might be I do what I need to do and screw those others who don't understand. This is fine when the others are marginal players like the U.K. But for countries with a large nuclear arsenal and whose reaction and whose perception ofbown security can have existential consequences for the US, that would be totally self destructive. The one country able to launch a truly devastating preemptive attack on the US is Russia. At current rate china can do so as well within 10 years or so. Considering America's recent track record of fabricating evidence to justify an attack on Iraq in order to aggrandize itself in the region, I think if United States launches an nuclear strike based on claimed information about a threat that others can't independently verify, then the stink of an elective attack for own aggrandizement can never be removed from the act, and the attack would certainly put other nuclear powers on the extreme edge, and make the option of a true preemptive strike against the US more attractive in their eyes.  RE: Will there be a nuclear strike in your lifetime?
June 5, 2017 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2017 at 3:18 pm by Aoi Magi.)
I still have a little bit of faith remaining in human intelligence so I don't think we will nuke each other, besides they are so oldskool. We will most likely screw up each other with something a bit more futuristic, like some runaway genetic experiment, or skynet
Seriously though, I am more afraid of weaponized viruses in the hands of terrorists than nukes in the hands of our bureaucrats... 
There will IF someone will give me just a few nukes!
Though the bio agents I'm developing may work sometime soon... 
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" (June 5, 2017 at 4:07 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(June 5, 2017 at 3:30 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: There will IF someone will give me just a few nukes! Just remember to hit the right areas: Middle East, Sahara, Pakistan, White House.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
Anywhere is the right area if the rock is 10 miles across.
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