Did we really expect to have lasted this long?

dermiek

If I ever get my hands on a few nuclear warheads, i'll fire them off in all directions.

Wompa1

I'd be more worried about North Korea. The likes of Iran and Russia are sh!t stirrers. They have been sabre rattling for decades.

North Korea is a complete rogue state with nothing to lose.

Who'd have thought the US allowing Jews to immigrate to avoid persecution in parts of Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia would lead to the cluster f**k we have today.

kevin65

Pottler wrote: »

Is it just me, or is Israel a bit like the skanger family who have a few bob that live down the street -there's always one- always involved in some feckin drama or row, always throwing rubbish over peoples fences and their kids causing aggro on a daily basis. Like a feckin boil on your arse, always annoying and always threatening to erupt. Personally, they bore me and I wish they'd move, or get a disease, or a burning desire to move to Leitrim, or somthing. Can we not pursuade Israel to move to Leitrim? For the sake of world peace like? Would it fit there? Could we squeeze them in if we used a big squeezy thing?

As a Leitrim person, I object to this suggestion.:mad:

Wibbs

Wompa1 wrote: »

North Korea is a complete rogue state with nothing to lose.

Especially if the regime starts to unravel as regimes will and I suspect this one is overdue. The current heir to the nuttiness looks like the weakest yet IMH.

3ndahalfof6

when it happens, remember to, catch it, kill it, bin it.

Toby Take a Bow

smcgiff wrote: »

And, dont rely on the mutual destruction safeguard - it only takes a lunatic/functioning psychotic to be in charge of the red button again see Iran.

Theoretically, yes. In the past, however, the only time a nuclear weapon was used in wartime was when one country had it and none of the others did. Look at Pakistan and India: always at war until the two of them developed nuclear weapons.

Toby Take a Bow

Wibbs wrote: »

Especially if the regime starts to unravel as regimes will and I suspect this one is overdue. The current heir to the nuttiness looks like the weakest yet IMH.

I always got the impression that it was China keeping that regime propped up (not explicitly so, but through keeping up relations with them). Not sure if that's the case, but if it is, and China continues to grow (at least relatively compared to everyone else) there's every chance that the regime will continue.

But, yeah, the guy does look like he has no clue what he's doing.

Grayson

See, if a republican said that Northern Ireland should be wiped off a map, we'd know he was talking about the political entity, not the actual 6 counties or the populace. In the original translation he never even mentioned Israel, just the regime.

In this case it's obvious are biased against him and Iran. It's been shown in studies that when people are shown evidence that counters a believe they hold, it actually reinforces and strengthens that belief. So after being shown a translation people say it's wrong, or even if it's correct, he must still mean it, he just never actually said it.

This is funny though
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Shah-nukeIran.jpg

Grayson

Actually, I believe the US is still the one most likely to use a nuke. They've developed all kinds of low yield weapons and they are more likely to use a bunker buster nuke.

But I think the thread is aimed at the use of nuclear weapons in a more conventional sense. Like dropping a bomb on a civilian target. I don't believe the US would do that.

The problem is that if a nuke is used at all, it kinda opens up a big can of worms. At the moment it doesn't matter how small it is, it's considered bad form to use it. If that changes we're all screwed.

Show Time

If anyone is gonna use a nuke i can see it being Israel.