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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on August 30, 2014, 07:04:15 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nuclear-weapons-just-dont-make-sense/2012/05/23/gJQAeADolU_story.html
What are the circumstances that would lead us to use Atomic bombs?
What are the potential targets?
This is expensive to maintain , is it really useless except that its existence is deterrent?
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It certainly makes no sense the the US to store nukes in Turkey if it cannot fly them out.
I always thought that the main point was that the US cannot win a land war in Asia, as the Chinese have many, many more troops than the US could ever have. The only way to defeat the would be with nukes. I do not think that the Chinese are any serious threat to the US. They want to sell us stuff. We have bankrolled the fastest modernization in human history: highways, auto factories, electric plants, railways and all that were paid for from profits made by selling us shoes, clothes, electronics and all sorts of other stuff.
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I hope we would not destroy the Army of China without a very good reason, and how does a reason get that good?
I might owe my existence to the Hiroshima bombing. My Father was on a ship on its way to Japan when the war ended , he and the rest of the Navy was prepared for a very hard fight.
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My Uncle Wyatt was waiting in Hawaii for a year for that invasion, and they kept him there for two years after that. He was trapped in Honolulu with no money. He got a couple of really ugly tattoos and blamed President Truman for his bad fortune for the rest of his life.
He made some investments in land in Tarzana, CA and became a millionaire, but he really really loved to complain.