Posted on 01/03/2022 6:10:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
Five of the world’s nuclear powers on Monday pledged to prevent the proliferation of nuclear arms and have also said that nuclear war is not an option.
In a rare statement issued jointly, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US said: “We believe strongly that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented.”
The statement went on to say: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
There was also affirmation that “nuclear weapons — for as long as they continue to exist — should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war.”
The permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) agreed “to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
The joint pledge was issued ahead of what was to be the latest review of the Treaty of the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). …
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Governments always say the opposite of what they are actually doing.
When you can release COVID on the world, like China did, who needs nuclear weapons?
I was looking for “Peace and Security”
Germ warfare has been proven to work. Why use nukes now.
Stock up on iodine tablets then.
That’s reassuring......
And China will ignore any agreement as usual.
Russia and China don’t give a crap about treaties. Communists think they are made to be broken.
Stalin and Hitler had their armies on the Eastern Front, in WW2 use every tactic, conventional weapon, take no prisoners, & exterminate the enemy ruthlessness. Completely inhibited from the rules of warfare.
Yet neither leader was willing to use, what we call WMD’s today.
Why?
Didn’t they want to win?
I doubt nukes are going to be used in the big war between the United States vs China & Russia, that’ll take place in 10-25 years.
Nuclear war CAN be fought and won. We used nukes to win WW2.
Weaponized AI, particularly general-purpose AI autonomously operating robots, will be far more dangerous to humanity than nuclear weapons.
I’m not trying to minimize the risks of nuclear war, but I have no confidence this agreement will make the world one iota safer.
Disarmament has been a part of Communist propaganda since nukes were invented. It’s a lot like gun control. If they can get the USA to disarm, there will be no check on their power. Of course, if America falls to communism, it won’t matter either way.
Well, in WWII we were the only ones with the nukes.
The danger today is having a nihilistic nation that doesn’t even care about its own survival due to a nihilistic eschatology becoming a nuclear power.
Tell that to Iran, Pakistan, India, N.Korea and other nuclear nations who are all trying to gain nuclear advantage.
Those nations won’t keep that agreement. It’s just to make the public think they have nothing to fear about Nuclear War......when in fact there’s already too many nuclear nations with or seeking nuclear capability who are just waiting for the right time and place.
Russia believes in the doctrine of nuclear first strike.
A smart country never takes any option off the table.
“Yet neither leader was willing to use, what we call WMD’s today.”
They didn’t because WWI taught them that the WMDs of the time, poison gas, weren’t as effective as they thought and often hurt their own troops. The Imperial Japanese had no problem using biological weapons on the Chinese.
Hitler had no problem indiscriminately bombing civilians with his V1 and V2 rockets. At some points they were killing more civilians in England than he was Allied troops in the field.
If either one of them had gotten the A Bomb first London, Moscow, Stalingrad, LA, NYC would still be glowing.
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Sure. Just trade one Pyrrhic victory for another; the commies may not be the last to perish in thst scenario.
It makes me nostalgic, remembering when France and the UK and the USSR (and the USA?) were considered to be “world powers” ...
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