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Gordon Booth · 23-09-2010, 19:51

Don't forget, nuclear weapons, in responsable hands, are a deterent not a weapon. No sane nation would ever use them to attack, only to defend! But if it hadn't been for them we'd probably be speaking Russian now, if we were speaking at all. The USA would never have got into a conventional war to defend Europe but the MAD policy ensured they didn't need to.
But INSANE nations,rogue states, unbalanced leaders? You haven't enough fingers to count them on, even at the moment and some are already going nuclear. In the future? We need to be able to say 'Please don't use that thing on us or we'll get upset'.

23-09-2010, 19:51	#24
Gordon Booth Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,402 Liked: 715 times Rep Power: 46612	Re: The primary duty of every Government-Trident Don't forget, nuclear weapons, in responsable hands, are a deterent not a weapon. No sane nation would ever use them to attack, only to defend! But if it hadn't been for them we'd probably be speaking Russian now, if we were speaking at all. The USA would never have got into a conventional war to defend Europe but the MAD policy ensured they didn't need to. But INSANE nations,rogue states, unbalanced leaders? You haven't enough fingers to count them on, even at the moment and some are already going nuclear. In the future? We need to be able to say 'Please don't use that thing on us or we'll get upset'.