Newfie wrote:I agree it is a problem and one likely to get worse.
On the one hand you have Russia who likes to talk about nukes, a lot, and in pretty graphic terms. That creates a dilemma. If you cower at those threat the. You give Russia license to do whatever it likes. One other option is to call their bluff. And that is where the MAD rational comes to play. If you consider a religious nutter rational. It is a huge risk but I see little alternative. Perhaps playing Russia and running the. Into the gutter. But that is no guarantee of success, they could loose control of the nukes to other even more rabid nutters.
Then there is Pakistan. A nuclear country under siege by Islamic nutters. Those devices could get loose into the radical segments, or Pakistan could give/sell them. The democratization of nuclear military power.
Not a lot I like in any of that.
careinke wrote:Let's be real. So far, the U.S. has been the only "nutter" to use nukes. Hopefully it will continue that way, if not we will all be dead in 72 minutes, so I'm not worrying about it.
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yellowcanoe wrote:careinke wrote:Let's be real. So far, the U.S. has been the only "nutter" to use nukes. Hopefully it will continue that way, if not we will all be dead in 72 minutes, so I'm not worrying about it.
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The odd thing is that while there was a lot of discussion at a high level before the decision was made to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, there wasn't a similar discussion before the army airforce started fire bombing cities in Japan. The fire bombing attacks killed far more people than the two atomic bombs did!
Newfie wrote:If you cower at those threat the. You give Russia license to do whatever it likes. One other option is to call their bluff. And that is where the MAD rational comes to play.
careinke wrote: Add in the Launch On Warning Protocol, combined with our brain dead President, things could go sour very quickly.
AgentR11 wrote:Russia successfully tested an ICBM (don't know type) today, firing from the Astrakhan area North of Iran, flight path into an Eastern Russian training facility.
Just a little wave "hello."
Quora wrote:How many wars have been fought on earth? - Quora
Since the end of ww1, there have been 260 major wars in the world. in human history, it varies. early humans could have fought wars that went unnoticed. sources range from 100,000 to 300,000.
ralfy wrote:Well, it only takes one nut.
ralfy wrote:One interview shared in the forum reveals that U.S. automatically retaliates.
AgentR11 wrote:ralfy wrote:One interview shared in the forum reveals that U.S. automatically retaliates.
I don't think our "Launch on Warning" policy has been a well kept secret or anything. I do think the likely actors have changed such that maybe its not such a reasonable policy anymore. One missile in from NK, Iran, or whoever, nothing extra would be lost in waiting for physical confirmation and then retaliating.
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