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The image of 3000 nuclear explosions in say a 48 hour span in the Northern hemisphere will insure that the only winners would be the very undeveloped world."
We derived quite a few benefits from the many nuke shots at the Nevada test site alone, and we're still here after those and many other shots outside of Nevada (see Russian shots, all).
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The Chinese no more believe in surviving a nuclear exchange with the US than the Soviets did, MAD actually works and history proved it."
Tell that to the Islamists. The Iranians alone want over a million casualties in the first nuke exchange in order to light up Islamist nations against us (statement a few years ago from Ayatollah puppet, Ahmadinejad). Russia has been hard at work in preparing them to do so, and China's looking for the opportunity to take more real estate.
The article was about the Chinese not the Islamists. I told a Muslim co worker after 9/11 when he glibly told me we couldn’t fight Islam because there were a billion muslims. I reminded him that tomorrow there could be 600million, and we’d start from there.So we do not have to care,as this time, if the muzzies don’t believe in MAD.For them there is no MAD only AD.