Speed Demon Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Do you think it would ever happen, there sure have been plenty of threats and scaremongering over the years and now Iran supposed to be having so called weapons of mass destruction, hell we all know Korea has them, they parade and salute in front of them all the time, what a lunatic asylum race we really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 "...hell we all know Korea has them..." Really? I was aware than the North Koreans had fission weapons, but when did they obtain a thermonuclear capability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuressenceUK Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Demon Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Great War Games reference there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 It cannot happen now, as the USSR is out of the equation. The enemies of the USA between them do not have the capacity to even hurt them. All the other nuclear powers are allies of the USA. During the Cold War, it was known as MAD, Mutualy Assured Destruction. Gorbachev saw the stupid folly in this, and stopped Reagan in his tracks at the Iceland summit, by offering to give all his missiles up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMoran Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 It cannot happen now, as the USSR is out of the equation. The enemies of the USA between them do not have the capacity to even hurt them. All the other nuclear powers are allies of the USA. During the Cold War, it was known as MAD, Mutualy Assured Destruction. Gorbachev saw the stupid folly in this, and stopped Reagan in his tracks at the Iceland summit, by offering to give all his missiles up. A decision Russia is thinking about reversing i hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 It cannot happen now, as the USSR is out of the equation. The enemies of the USA between them do not have the capacity to even hurt them. All the other nuclear powers are allies of the USA. ... I'm not so sure. There are only a few countries with a thermonuclear capability (and Russia is still one of those.) A few more with a nuclear capability But potentially a number with the capability to make 'dirty' weapons which could make places uninhabitable for a considerable time. The chances of a 'Global Thermonuclear Exchange' are probably far lower than they were 25 years ago, but the chances that nuclear - as opposed to thermonuclear - weapons might be used has probably increased and the chance that a country or organisation might use a non-nuclear weapon containing radioactive material may have increased considerably. The amount of 'lost, stolen or strayed' nuclear material has increased considerably over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 The amount of 'lost, stolen or strayed' nuclear material has increased considerably over the years. Which is going to continue, especially where refinement / enrichment is involved. A few years ago there was a big thing about how Sellafield had lost a huge quantity of nuclear material, but they weren't bothered, and (according to the tabloid press / tree huggers / rent-a-mob protestors) *that was wrong*. Turns out that the amount of material you get after they've processed it can vary quite a bit, and that the amount of material they had was less than they expected, it was still more than their low end estimations. Still didn't stop lots of shouty people demanding investigations into who had stolen all the plutonium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balpin Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=506177&page=1 Aparantly enough is missing from the old USSR to build many bombs, for people with the ability. perhaps now they are just developing the means to deliver these devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speed Demon Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 I am 31, so do you think in my living memory we will see any of these threats come to fruition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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