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Plane

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Good Question Walter Pincus
« on: August 30, 2014, 07:04:15 PM »
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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Re: Good Question Walter Pincus
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 10:46:50 PM »
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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Re: Good Question Walter Pincus
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 11:25:41 PM »
   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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Re: Good Question Walter Pincus
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2014, 12:33:45 AM »
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.
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