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Nuclear attack unavoidable, experts say
trivalleyherald.com ^
| Friday, September 20, 2002
| By Ian Hoffman
Posted on 09/21/2002 2:56:37 PM PDT by USA21
Edited on 07/09/2004 12:50:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Despite more than a half-century free of nuclear war, a majority of experts assembled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Thursday concluded a nuclear or radiological attack is inevitable over the next 50 years, if not this decade.
"The consequence will be worldwide horror that will result in less reliance on nuclear weapons," suggested former National Security Council senior director Jane Wales, president of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco.
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To: gcruse
Not really. We get blasé about everything, in an ever shortening time frame.You know, the bible predicts that, gcruse. ; * )
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:29:54 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: palmer
I do think a first strike is in order. China is weak at the moment but is getting stronger by the year. We should not allow them to become as powerful as the former Soviet Union.
Should we hit them now? Yes, maybe. Perhaps after a we do a little more work on orbiting lasers, etc., identify where their forces are, their ships are, their missiles are, and hit them first, hard. With nukes? Yes. Now's our chance.
I'm not bloodthirsty, by any means. This is the last thing in the world I wanted. But I do want a future for us and it's beginning to look pretty bleak with the whole world aligning against us.
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To: dubyagee
You know, the bible predicts that, gcruse. ; * )The Bible excels at prolepsis..
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:35:15 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: Righty1
Others hinted at the United Nations ... keeping tight inventories of nations' respective arsenals
Thought you might enjoy this little gem too!
To: LibWhacker
Maybe the Chicoms will pre-empt us? I think they are considering it very seriously. They must be thinking "use them or lose them".
To: gcruse
prolepsis..Whoa...I had to google that one. ; * )
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:44:55 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: Eternal_Bear
I think they are considering it very seriously. Yes, exactly. It's a very dangerous situation. I don't want to go through another 50-year Cold War with China slipping gobs of WMD to our lesser enemies, their proxies. I don't know if we could survive another one.
To: dubyagee
Think, "predicting the past." :)
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:48:02 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: USA21
"The consequence will be worldwide horror that will result in less reliance on nuclear weapons," suggested former National Security Council senior director Jane Wales, president of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Bullshit. (This is not profanity -- it's an accurate description.)
Terrorists are not interested in control. They are interested in horror.
Pakistan is not interested in control. Pakistan is interested in not getting conquered by India.
India is not interested in control. India is interested in responding to Pakistan, and in not getting conquered by China.
China wants to threaten its neighbors, and to use its nuclear arsenal as a backstop to prevent us or Russia from intervening.
And on and on and on.....
These people think everybody will play nice because the alternative is so bad. Everybody thought the same thing after the First World War, too.
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:48:29 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Quix
"I don't think this took a rocket scientist nor a nuclear scientist to figure out" Agree. In fact, the guy who cleans our offices said exactly the same thing about six weeks ago!
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posted on
09/21/2002 4:52:55 PM PDT
by
Slehn
To: USA21
TV Weather 100, IRAQ forecast:
To: jws3sticks
Yes, but it's a dry heat.
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posted on
09/21/2002 5:22:12 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: USA21
I'm far more concerned, and think it far more likely, that there will be a biological attack. It's anonymous, will take a few hours (at least) to know there's a problem, any one trouble maker can be super lethal and, if he times it right, he can create a response against someone else. If, for example, Israel suffered a biological attack tomorrow Iraq would stand a good chance of becoming a cinder - even if the Iraqis had nothing to do with it.
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posted on
09/21/2002 6:46:27 PM PDT
by
caltrop
To: LasVegasMac
"Independence Day"
To: USA21
A repeat test on my jpg, which was ok initially but got smaller after the posting and I don't know why.
To: r9etb
Do you mean to tell me you would argue with the scholarly views of this enlightened genius pool? ;o)
To: MissAmericanPie
Does this mean the blue goron voting areas will be toast, literally?
To: USA21
"The consequence will be worldwide horror that will result in less reliance on nuclear weapons," suggested former National Security Council senior director Jane Wales, president of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. The tactical mobile laser weapons of the future are within a decade of deployment.
Remember all the reports of delta-wing UFOs in the 1970s.
Turned out to be stealth testing.
You won't believe what's in the pipeline now.
As Reagan used to say.....make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete....it's coming.........
To: Black Agnes
Does this mean the blue goron voting areas will be toast, literally?Probably, but I'm living in one of them! Help!
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