Looks like the Pakistani Army has decided to take over the country. You just know that the Indians won't appreciate that...
Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :
what do we want? The Apocalypse!!
when do we want it? Now!!
Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
I hope they locked up the nukes.
Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :
Yeah baby! WW3 just in time for the millennium. What a satisying bookend for such a bloody century.
*grabs artillery store, a shopping trolley full of cans of beans and heads for high ground*
Remember! Anyone comes says they're from the UN? - shoot 'em!
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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :
Don't worry this won't start WWIII, It's not the first time a government with nukes had there old government overthrown, Coups happen all the time. Hey once the figure out Gee if we launch nukes we die too, they would do anything...hopefully. More likely this just a little internal conflict involving the Prime Minister and the head of the Army, No big deal .
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Er...such as? Aside from the attempted coup in Russia, I can't think of any.
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
No boom today, boom tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow! BOOM!! Susan Ivanova
This is a very good chance for a war to start. Some S***head with a God complex(ie:thinks he's God)manages to take over a country with nukes, boom today!
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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Before I go on, this needs to be shipped off to the Flameboard.
I can name two people with a God Complex: Hitler, and Slobodan Milosevic.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Um, no it doesn't. Not unless someone decides to take up the pro-nuclear war stance, in which case I could see an argument.
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
There are worse people than Milosevic. His wife for example.
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
If someone takes up a pro-nuclear holocaust stance, remind me never to vote for them for anything, 'kay?
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
This is why we need a large nuclear stockpile. With a couple gigatons of nuclear explosives at our disposal, the only person dumb enough to attack us with nukes would be someone who was completely off their rocker, and if they did blow up one or two of our cities, we'd flatten their entire country. Of course, if SOMEONE would just finish that SDI...
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
*shakes Magic Infinity Ball*
Signs point to no.
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Did anyone hear yet what's going to happen in Pakistan? It's in and out of the news like *snaps fingers* that.
(OK, I lied, I can't snap my fingers. Weird eh?)
Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
I see. Like anyone was ever going to bother attacking the USA. Reality check: the USSR wasn't. They knew they wouldn't win, even with their massive armed forces, and they knew that if they nuked everyone then there wouldn't be anyone left to convert to communism. It was the States who were simultaneously juggling the concept "better dead than Red" with a pious determination that they wouldn't start a nuclear war.
Now, children, which of those two rules do you think would be the first to be broken after the Warsaw Pact had overrun Western Europe in two days? And if you think it's the "better dead than Red" you'd be wrong.
So, please, let's have none of this "we have nukes so nobody will f*** with us" rubbish. The only likely use of the arsenal anytime soon will be if certain religious bigots (who have a representation here) get to see their religious dictatorship installed, in which case I suspect the rest of the world will be told very politely "worship Christ or die."
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Religious bigots have a representation here? I haven't run into any.
And I meant that nobody will attack us with their own nukes. Our army can handle conventional warfare. Well, at least it could before Clin-Ton got here. We were supposed to be able to fight a war on three fronts. Now I doubt we could fight on one very effectively.
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Religious bigots? The US is full of them. And yes, I know they're not only in the US. They're here too. They're in our parliament too (not too many though, luckily), they want theocracy, and I hate their undemocratic guts, but I know they're pretty harmless. Now, if anyone here still thinks I'm only bitching about the US.. :]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Someone mentioned that the reason we need a huge nuclear arsenal is so, if someone attacks us, we can wipe them off the planet (or something to that effect; I didn't bother to go back and look). Actually, this is precisely the reason not to have a large nuclear arsenal. If you've got it, you're going to be tempted to use it. Think about it...
Large nuke stockpile: Somebody attacks us, we attack back, nuclear holocaust.
No nuke arsenal: Somebody attacks us, they run out of nukes, we wipe them out w/ conventional weaponry. Much less chance of global nuclear winter...
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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Hitting one small country isn't going to cause a global winter. Of course, now that China poses a legitimate threat, thanks to Clinton selling them three decades of technology and the ability to hit anywhere on the planet, I'm getting ready for another cold war, and we just have to hope that some wacko doesn't get in charge over there. Insanity and the ability to destroy the planet have never been combined before, and for good reason. We wouldn't be here if they had been. Again, SOMEONE HAS TO FINISH THE SDI! That's what killed the USSR. Without their missiles, they were nothing, and they knew that SDI would make their missiles useless.
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