[Lucas1]

quote "The US assessment said a limited nuclear exchange would have cataclysmic results, overwhelming hospitals across Asia and the Middle East and requiring vast foreign assistance, particularly from America, which would be forced to go in and clean up the radioactive mess."

Forced by who?

[Random Access]

Forced by who?

All of the countries of the world that hate us even when we are putting humpty-dumpty back together again, as usual.

[SSN558]

Forced by who ? American corporations that have invested $billions over there. I don't believe Force de Majure will begin to cover the losses to American companies or stocks if they start shooting nukes. Look at what happened to ENRON, the Indian power plant project was one of the major factors leading to it's downfall. The U.S. economy is too tied into the global economy for America not to take a big economic hit when war breaks out.

[monday]

"Forced by who?"

Exactly. I know I am not gonna be going over there and cleaning up any radioactive messes. They couldn't pay me enough.

I am not to keen about paying for any clean up either. They make the mess, they can sit in it for all I care.

[My Identity]

Film Footage of Actual Blasts
From a PBS site:

Operation Cue (500kb) Beginning in 1953 the Federal Civil Defense Adminstration, working with the Atomic Energy Commission, set up an atomic test program to investigate the effects of nuclear weapons on typical American homes and their furnishings.	Operation Castle (300kb) Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests, was conducted in the Marshall Islands in the spring of 1954. The 15 megaton Bravo detonation was over 1,000 times larger than Hiroshima.	Layer Cake Design (500kb) In Andrei Sakharov's Layer Cake design, several layers of light and heavy elements were alternated. High explosives surrounding the Layer Cake would be used to implode and ignite the atomic bomb at the center of the device. The atomic explosion would then set off a fusion reaction in the deuterium.
Operation Cue (300kb) Each home was equipped with refrigerators, typical appliances, the kinds of food one would eat, from baby food to adult food, and were exposed to the blast.	Operation Castle (100kb) Operation Castle yielded more fallout than any of the other U.S. thermonuclear tests, contaminating military personnel and civilians on nearby islands.	Camp Desert Rock (900kb) Camp Desert Rock, Nevada - The U.S. military began using smaller blasts to learn how to fight a nuclear war. On April 22, 1952 approximately 2,000 Army personnel conducted maneuvers beneath the mushroom cloud of the 31-kiloton Charlie nuclear detonation.

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[lavaroise]

Forced by who indeed. I just don't get it aside from using this conflict as a worldwide socialist psychological blackmail against America. There is indeed fears that a scheme is being set up to ruin America economicaly. This would be one of them.