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Lets make a list of countries who have nuclear arms and then which countries have the ability to launch nuclear arms.
Originally posted by Inquiring_Mike
Why does the USA and Soviet Union need so many?
Originally posted by Lyuokdea
Although I do not agree with nuclear weapons policy, do you seriously believe that the US and USSR would not have gone to war if there were no nuclear weapons? ALthough many died in proxy wars, a Soviet Invasion of Europe would be almost gaurenteed without the threat of U.S. Nuclear Retaliation, a 3rd World War in Europe would have certainly killed millions more than the proxy wars throughout the war.
Originally posted by Inquiring_Mike
Why does the USA and Soviet Union need so many? Do they actually think that they will ever be able to use them? I think that this world would be much peaceful if every country that has massive numbers of nukes (500 and up) cut the number of nukes they possesses to a maximum of 50 or so...
Hmm... No offense but the way you put it right now it soundsOriginally posted by wuliheron
Despite the Soviet union's opposition to the Star Wars program, they had actually been the first to implement one. Basically they buried gravel with explosives in strategic places. If missiles flew over, they would shoot the gravel up into the air. At the speeds the missles travel a single piece of gravel can destroy them. Redundancy means at least some of the missles will get through.
Originally posted by drag
Hmm... No offense but the way you put it right now it sounds
totally absurd, I mean - explosives and gravel in the gorund ?! Come on !
Any reference to the details (maybe you just phrased it funny ) wuli ?
Live long and prosper.
Originally posted by Nereid
I've a question that is at least somewhat related. Aside from the Cuban missile crisis, has any nuclear power baldly threatened another country with a nuclear attack (post-WWII)?
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Originally posted by Nereid
I've a question that is at least somewhat related. Aside from the Cuban missile crisis, has any nuclear power baldly threatened another country with a nuclear attack (post-WWII)?
IIRC, the US government made such a threat against China, either during the Korean war or in the 1960s, but I haven't found any details. Of course, this threat was delivered in secret by 'personal emissaries', not in a televised address, but was nonetheless very clear, deliberate, and serious (so I recall).
Has anything concrete come into the public domain about this threat? I recently saw a television program on the Korean War where this was mentioned, but IIRC, it was more that it had been discussed (between the President, State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff?) and not clear that it was in fact delivered. Or, if delivered, just how specific it was.by SelfAdjoint It used to be said that Eisenhower, who campaigned in 1952 on being able to stop the Korean war then going on, threatened China with nuking Beijing if they wouldn't strinke a deal on armistice.