Nuclear Weapons Good/Bad

[Damo_1878]

You know what he meant, stop being obtuse.

No. You claimed I was throwing "insults" around

I never did. I said he was "misinformed"

There is no "arms dealers" involved

For example. BAE systems is involved in building the submarines for the UK nuclear deterrent

The US and UK share a pool of Trident missiles that Lockheed Martin Space Systems build

The UK manufactures its own nuclear warheads at Aldermaston. Under AWE with BNFL, Lockheed Martin and Serco as contractors

All the technology is classified and controlled by the UK and US governments governed by a bilateral defence treaty

No arms dealers involved there

 

[ste d' indica]

It's almost enough to make you miss holliday innit?

 

[Damo_1878]

It's almost enough to make you miss holliday innit?

I'm glad we got our facts straight.

 

[Lobworm]

As for the OP. No nuclear weapons are not a "good thing". They're weapons of war and in this case a weapon of last resort. However, they protect us from the threats of aggressors and do so 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Sadly they didn't protect those countries who the US waged war on since WW2. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq etc etc.

Literally shovelling our economy into the pockets of arms dealers

Quite. It's merely one way, how we, and others, help prop up the American economy.

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.

The relatively miniscule incident at Chernobyl gave us an incling of what even a small scale nuclear war would do. Evern a relatively minor exchange between India and Pakistan for example, would likely see hundreds of millions dead due in the neighbouring countries due to starvation.

 

[ste d' indica]

I'm glad we got our facts straight.

Yeah sound mate, cheerio.

 

[PITA]

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

They all should have gone straight to video.

 

[gianthogweed]

Everyone wants one it gets you a seat at the table it takes you from irrelevant to having a voice
It also stops regimes being removed illegally like in the case of North Korea

 

[Vintage]

Probably the closest call of a nuclear war breaking out

 

[Ferguson1878]

Probably the closest call of a nuclear war breaking out

Channel 4 done a documentary about that years ago

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It's almost enough to make you miss holliday innit?

Oh wowwwwww. Now that would be a clash for ages.

Damo vs. Holliday.

Box office. Box Room weirdosfest.

 

[Vintage]

Channel 4 done a documentary about that years ago

Must check it out

 

[Huyton Layne]

Good: Amazing at wiping out millions of people at once
Bad: Amazing at wiping out millions of people at once

 

[PITA]

Surely you are not including Ghost Rider. A classic

I might concede that 'Leaving Las Vegas' is watchable but only for the Elisabeth Shue scene.

 

[PITA]

It's almost enough to make you miss holliday innit?

No. It really isn't!

 

[magicjuan]

Weirdo

And you are who?