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Do you think Nuclear Weapons will be used in the next few decades

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  • 10-04-2017 12:53am
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    dd972
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    A bright and breezy start to the week with this one, anyone think Nukes will be used again, not necessarily an all-out world ending war but for instance, a conflict between India and Pakistan and smaller scale nukes being used before sense prevails nevertheless causing massive ecological damage.


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    jamesbere
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    Yes, growing population and food shortages combined with political and racial tensions will trigger some war or terrorist attack that will see the use of nuclear weapons


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    Yourself isit
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    Food shortages will have nothing to do with it. But yes I see the US nuking Iran.


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    Arghus
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    I sure hope not, it'd be MAD stuff after all. But I have no idea really. Impossible to predict.


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    DontThankMe
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    Yes but it won't happen until 05/09/2018


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    topmanamillion
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    Who knows, I certainly cant tell the future.
    I see nothing in particular at the moment that would suggest the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable or anything like that.
    People like to imagine that the current world situation is so much worse than any other time, I think this is simply because they want to believe they are living in historic times.
    We`re a long way from the threat level that was present during WW2 or The Cold War/Cuban missile crisis.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Radiation is good for you.


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    Noveight
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    DontThankMe wrote: »
    Yes but it won't happen until 05/09/2018

    Michael Keaton's 67th birthday... The prophecy aligns!


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    Noddyholder
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    Noveight wrote: »
    Michael Keaton's 67th birthday... The prophecy aligns!

    Batman will save us or are you a joker.


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    _Brian
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    Would the chances of a "dirty bomb" being used not be much greater than a full out nuclear strike.
    It lessens the chances of retaliation and so from a strategy perspective would be more useful.


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    valoren
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    *Arnie voice*

    When Skynet becomes self awayuh


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    Pac1Man
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    No, no need for them. A small scale nuke would be the last thing deployed.

    Strategic bombing is more effective for eliminating targets and doesn't carry the whole 'doomsday' tag.

    I buy an extra can of beans each week though just in case.


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    gramar
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    No, no need for them. A small scale nuke would be the last thing deployed.

    Strategic bombing is more effective for eliminating targets and doesn't carry the whole 'doomsday' tag.

    I buy an extra can of beans each week though just in case.

    You can eat the beans and then use the can to line the inside of your bunker. Excellent thinking.


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    shane9689
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    They more than likely will. which will probably either lead to permanent world wide disarmament of nukes or the end of the world.


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    Wanderer78
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    I'm just glad the Donald is in office, I don't think he likes wars, he wouldn't allow this to happen!


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    Winterlong
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    As the Nuclear club gets bigger the ability to contain it lessens.
    It just takes one crackpot dictator/leader to be given access to the red button, lose his temper and then pow.
    But Anti missile defences are a lot better...


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    Cina
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    I do genuinely think that North Korea will eventually get nuked, most likely the day they have missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.


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    silverharp
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    Cina wrote: »
    I do genuinely think that North Korea will eventually get nuked, most likely the day they have missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

    they would certainly get invaded, not sure about nuked, NK would get rolled over very quickly

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    CoolHandBandit
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    Cina wrote: »
    I do genuinely think that North Korea will eventually get nuked, most likely the day they have missiles capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

    That will be a lot less than 10 years imo.

    Personally i think the world is vastly more unstable now than during the Cuban missile crisis or any other time. We now have a multitude of nations with nukes and others trying to gain access to them.


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    Ms Doubtfire1
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    CoolHandBandit wrote: »
    That will be a lot less than 10 years imo.

    Personally i think the world is vastly more unstable now than during the Cuban missile crisis or any other time. We now have a multitude of nations with nukes and others trying to gain access to them.

    And than there's the stand off between Trump and Putin..if you boil it down to the bottom line...I'm thinking of digging a big hole somewhere remote.


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    Jayop
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    silverharp wrote: »
    they would certainly get invaded, not sure about nuked, NK would get rolled over very quickly

    Doubt that they'd be that much of a pushover tbh. Massive standing army and leaders with little regard for their own people's lives makes a quick conflict unlikely.


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    AlanG
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    I think Trump will intervene in NK to stop them getting a miniaturised warhead capable of reaching the US mainland. The question then is will the commanders on the ground retaliate against the south and Japan with the nukes that have survived the US strikes.
    I cannot however see ICBMs being used in the next decade.


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