23-02-2007, 15:49
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Apprentice Geriatric
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Re: US Missile Defence In UK
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Beats having the nuke explode, when you would get a lot more fallout!
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Whether we are poisoned slowly or instantly by radiation isn’t the issue Billcat. Being poisoned at all is.
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Unless the UK has suddenly pulled out of NATO and other treaties, any ICBM attack may well include you folks. Sad, but true.
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The only way that we would become the recipients of a nuclear attack is whilst we still have American missiles on our soil or in our subs. Not that we could retaliate without US sayso and the rest of the world knows this.
If some idiot chucked half a dozen nukes at the UK (and that is all it would take to make these islands uninhabitable) and no one else do you think that Bush would say, “OK guys hit back.”? Not a chance we, like the frigates guarding the carriers in a task force, would be sacrificed.
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Frankly, I believe that the best way to prevent catastrophic nuclear war is to continue to draw down the number of nuclear warheads and tp prevent further nuclear proliferation. Ridding ourselves (the USA primarily, with help from Blair and company) of the current "cowboy diplomacy" attitude would also be a good idea.
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Our best chance of survival is to not have any nukes defensive or otherwise and leave it to the big boys with MAD. You cannot un-invent something once it has been invented. Nukes are here to stay whether we like it or not and MAD is the only scenario. We all go together or we all stay together.
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