Nuclear Weapons Good/Bad

[Damo_1878]

Aside from being a truly awful human invention, the sheer amount of money we spend on maintaining and upgrading our Nuclear arsenal is gross.

The last time around, Boris Johnson decided to increase the number of warheads we have due to perceived threats fromChina and Russia.

The fact that we already likely have enough warheads to destroy the world a couple of times over, somehow we needed to spend multiple billions more on increasing this number, in the midst of a cost of living crisis, to what exactly? How does being able to destroy the world 3 times over rather than twice further ‘deter’ your supposed enemies?

Literally shovelling our economy into the pockets of arms dealers

I'd like you to name one "arms dealer" front which you can buy either strategic or tactical nuclear weapons?

No arms dealer is involved in nuclear weapons production. Sovereign states produce them via government agencies etc

The fact you made a claim that arms dealers are involved shows how misinformed you are

 

[Clarky cat]

Why single out the Wicker Man remake?

Why not? It’s an absolute disgrace.

 

[PITA]

Why not? It’s an absolute disgrace.

Because all Nicholas Cage films are crap.

 

[NeilMorepies]

I'd like you to name one "arms dealer" front which you can buy either strategic or tactical nuclear weapons?

No arms dealer is involved in nuclear weapons production. Sovereign states produce them via government agencies etc

The fact you made a claim that arms dealers are involved shows how misinformed you are

Talking of nuclear grade weapons…

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Talking of nuclear grade weapons…

It went right over his head the first time, good luck.

 

[RufusCat]

Because all Nicholas Cage films are crap.

Surely you are not including Ghost Rider. A classic

 

[NeilMorepies]

It went right over his head the first time, good luck.

You don’t expect me to read other peoples posts do you?

I thought I’d deploy my usual standards of subtleness and diplomacy

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

You don’t expect me to read other peoples posts do you?

I thought I’d deploy my usual standards of subtleness and diplomacy

My subtlety was evidently, well, too subtle!

 

[Ferguson1878]

Because all Nicholas Cage films are crap.

You must be suffering from some type of nuclear fall out coming out with that

 

[Vintage]

Aside from being a truly awful human invention, the sheer amount of money we spend on maintaining and upgrading our Nuclear arsenal is gross.

The last time around, Boris Johnson decided to increase the number of warheads we have due to perceived threats fromChina and Russia.

The fact that we already likely have enough warheads to destroy the world a couple of times over, somehow we needed to spend multiple billions more on increasing this number, in the midst of a cost of living crisis, to what exactly? How does being able to destroy the world 3 times over rather than twice further ‘deter’ your supposed enemies?

Literally shovelling our economy into the pockets of arms dealers

I presume the thinking of it is the UK in area is tiny in relation to the size of Russia and the Russians have the most powerful nuclear weapons such as the Tsar Bomba. So to keep as some sort of level pegging they keep increasing their numbers. Nevertheless, absolute ridiculous amount of money pumped into something that hopefully will never be used, a useless necessity I guess.
It's like if you gave up alcohol or smoking with the intention of saving the money you would have otherwise spent on them but end up spending it all on some other crap. If there were no nuclear weapons governments would spend the money on extra warships, more subs, bigger armies, other kinds of weapons etc

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Because all Nicholas Cage films are crap.

I won't have you disrespect Con Air, Face Off and The Rock. Anything else goes though.

 

[Ferguson1878]

I won't have you disrespect Con Air, Face Off and The Rock. Anything else goes though.

Leaving Las Vegas , list is endless

 

[Rita_Poon]

"I'm not the thief; the government is. Every year you make hardworking Joes like my reporter friend pay income taxes. And for what? Aid to ungrateful foreigners, do-nothing nuclear missiles, tomb polish for some unknown soldier."

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Leaving Las Vegas , list is endless

Endlessly

 

[Tipp blue]

I still don't buy the destroy the world theory. If everyone set theirs off at the same time I think the world would be OK. World's massive.

It still wouldn't be a great place to live, fact is there's enough nukes in the world to hit Every city with a population of over 100k 3 times each.
Although the neculear winter theory doesn't stand these days it was developed in a time where there were 6 times more neculear weapons than there are now, also these days Cities aren't as flammable as they were back then, with all the fire proofing materials in modern buildings, the firestorms that would cause the neculear winter wouldn't happen and the fact that the first targets would likely be the other sides neculear weapon launch sites which tend to be remote, making fire storms even less likley... probably not best to test the hypothesis.