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Red lines and mushroom clouds : Comments

By Marko Beljac, published 16/12/2015

Today all the nuclear powers, so far as we are aware, are modernising their nuclear weapons precisely as they are setting new red lines.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah Marco. And as one would expect, there will be technological advances, like a fusion bomb no bigger than a grapefruit and able to turn the entire planet into a brand new if short lived star!

I have enough relevant science to make one!

But who in their right mind is going to use it!? Perhaps those determined to never ever be beaten or become yet another Putin possession?

Or a neutronic bomb able to be exploded a mile high and therefore without harming ground zero infrastructure and create enough radiation to kill everything at ground zero, even those camped safely, they think, in hardened bunkers, hundreds of feet below!

I would worry or fret too much Marco, I mean between the U.S. and Russia and in armed nuclear conflict, they possess enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 24 times over, and moreover given safely hidden automatic response measures, absolutely ensure mutual destruction!

So what if they invent more powerful or technologically advanced ways of doing it? Imean a doomsday device spells doomsday for all!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 11:02:46 AM
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Maybe Marco would like the punters (sic) to bunker down to divert attention away from the awful negative consequences of leftist 'Progressive' social policies that are coming home to roost in Europe and the UK.

The Islamist elephant in the room is becoming very difficult for the international socialists in academia to ignore.

Islam fundamentalism nurtures an abundance of psychopaths and totalitarian fundamentalists who would not rule out poison gas or nuke attacks. Islam must present one of the highest risks that weapons of mass murder are deployed.

The poison gas precedent has already been set. Australians are not generally aware that the Sarin gas manufactured and tested on sheep on a large rural property in Australia owned and operated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

http://www.opcw.org/news/article/the-sarin-gas-attack-in-japan-and-the-related-forensic-investigation/
Posted by onthebeach, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 1:34:59 PM
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In reply to Rhrosty
The comfortable belief that "no-one in their right mind" would use these nuclear weapons is very nice, but completely irrelevant to the theme of this article.

Marco Beljac is specifically talking about "miscalculation" - a factor which nearly brought about global nuclear war in the past.

Of course, there is also the chilling possibility that someone not "in their right mind" , or someone like a future US President Donald Trump, might decide to unleash the nuclear weapons that are now on a hair-trigger.

It is cold comfort that the beneficiaries of the nuclear weapons industry, and their nice supporters would also "all go together when we go", as Tom Lehrer has put it.
Posted by ChristinaMac1, Friday, 18 December 2015 8:33:52 AM
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