Gold_skywalker
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Aug 15, 2006 15:40:08 GMT -5
Last I checked, Communism hasn't been achieved.
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Post by morty14 on Aug 15, 2006 18:18:42 GMT -5
Last I checked, Communism hasn't been achieved. Correct. Erm, maybe you should learn what M.A.D. is all about. The whole point is that no matter how much you send, you will still be destroyed. This is done by having enough nuclear weapons in enough places, that you could destroy any nation on earth. That's why the USA has thousands, that's why the USSR has thousands. Maybe you hit one base before being discovered, but the others will unleash their missiles and you will be decimated. Plus, with things like NORAD and spy satellites, we pretty damn well know if a missile is coming as soon as it launches. Yes, actually that would be standard operating proceedure to then destroy the enemy's cities. And the entirity of their country. That is Mutally Assured Destruction. "You attack me, you die. I attack you, I die." that is the principal. That is why it works because no one can attack without being destroyed themselves. Again, you can't "surprise attack" with this. And even if you could, the moment the first one hits every other silo in the opposing country then fires away. It takes like one minute to do. Game over for both sides. Please press the restart button. Heh, I remember that cutscene. Completely offtopic, because RA 2 is not in the least realistic though.
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Post by Hunessai on Aug 15, 2006 20:30:17 GMT -5
Don't forget the massive amount of nuclear-weapon sporting submarines.
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Post by lucia on Aug 15, 2006 20:36:21 GMT -5
"Only" thousands. There's estimated to be 29 000 nukes in the whole world. But USA has 1/3 of them. Or did you mean a unknown terrorist organization what has hundreds of thousands of nukes you belong to? Accurate facts are for noobs.
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Post by redyellow on Aug 22, 2006 9:21:37 GMT -5
I say let them, the french tested nuclear warheads in the pacific and we didn't stop them and don't get me started on the amount of weapons that the Americans have tested. I am pretty sure that they have munitions that can reach my house as well, so I couldn't care less that another nation can reach my home and fire a nuclear warhead near my house ..... Even though north korea is currently unable to hit my house, they are still able to hit a state capital, albeit an unimportant one.
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Ratwar
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Post by Ratwar on Aug 22, 2006 9:43:38 GMT -5
The more people that have nuclear weapons, the more likely one of them is going to be dumb enough to use them, and the harder it will be to control their spread, not just to other countrys, but to groups that have no country to counter attack. When that happens, the theory of MAD will break down, and the use of a nuclear weapon will be quite likely. The economic consequences of an offensive nuclear strike against Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea would be huge, and although the economy would expand during the following war, the effects would be felt for years afterward.
Just because other countrys have tested weapons doesn't mean that it is okay to test WMDs, especially when most of those nations haven't tested WMDs in years.
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Post by morty14 on Aug 22, 2006 10:03:41 GMT -5
I say let them, the french tested nuclear warheads in the pacific and we didn't stop them and don't get me started on the amount of weapons that the Americans have tested. I am pretty sure that they have munitions that can reach my house as well, so I couldn't care less that another nation can reach my home and fire a nuclear warhead near my house ..... Even though north korea is currently unable to hit my house, they are still able to hit a state capital, albeit an unimportant one. Some nations have proven to be responsible and others have not. North Korea has proven time and again to be an irresponsible nation. Now, they haven't proved irresponsible specificially with WMDs, but personally I'd rather never find out whether Kimmy is responsible or not with weapons of mass destruction.
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