Nuclear attack unavoidable, experts say

trivalleyherald.com ^ | Friday, September 20, 2002 | By Ian Hoffman

[USA21]

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.

[dubyagee]

Not really. We get blasé about everything, in an ever shortening time frame.

You know, the bible predicts that, gcruse. ; * )

[LibWhacker]

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.

[gcruse]

You know, the bible predicts that, gcruse. ; * )

The Bible excels at prolepsis..

[polemikos]

Others hinted at the United Nations ... keeping tight inventories of nations' respective arsenals

Thought you might enjoy this little gem too!

[Eternal_Bear]

Maybe the Chicoms will pre-empt us? I think they are considering it very seriously. They must be thinking "use them or lose them".

[dubyagee]

prolepsis..

Whoa...I had to google that one. ; * )

[LibWhacker]

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.

[gcruse]

Think, "predicting the past." :)

[r9etb]

"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.

[Slehn]

"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!

[jws3sticks]

TV Weather 100, IRAQ forecast:

[gcruse]

Yes, but it's a dry heat.

[caltrop]

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.

[MissAmericanPie]

"Independence Day"

[jws3sticks]

A repeat test on my jpg, which was ok initially but got smaller after the posting and I don't know why.

[MissAmericanPie]

Do you mean to tell me you would argue with the scholarly views of this enlightened genius pool? ;o)

[Black Agnes]

Does this mean the blue goron voting areas will be toast, literally?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

"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.........

[texasbluebell]

Does this mean the blue goron voting areas will be toast, literally?

Probably, but I'm living in one of them! Help!