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Some Moran Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:16 AM
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Do you believe any nation should have nuclear weapons?
My opinion?

Taiwan and only Taiwan.
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1songbird Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:18 AM
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1. No nations should have nuclear weapons
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Some Moran Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:20 AM
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2. Not even...
A progressive democracy threatened by its fascist neighbour?

But on the other hand, I wouldn't want Taiwan to have nukes if Soong ever had executive power...I hate him even more than I hate Bush.
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1songbird Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:28 AM
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5. Sorry but no nation should ever have these weapons.
Hiroshima should be a lesson to us all.
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Sting Donating Member (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:22 AM
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3. No.
Nobody should have weapons that can blow up the world 10 times. That's just insane.
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tokenlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:28 AM
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4. If Bush stays in power--and I was in any other country---
Edited on Thu Nov-20-03 12:29 AM by tokenlib
going nuclear would be great--at least he'd leave us alone.

But in a perfect world, it would be nice if nuclear weapons would just go away. With decent leadership in the USA--it would be nice if we could just freeze the number of nuclear powers. Or even promote nuclear disarmament. But never with the current regime.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:38 AM
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6. Well we already have them therefore we don't have much of a choice, soo...
"Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already have." - Jack Handy
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JailBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:42 AM
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7. What about biochemical weapons?
The problem is that we now have biochemical weapons that can destroy the world. If no nation had nuclear weapons, we'd still have a hostage crisis.


And that b*stard Bush is developing still more weapons of mass destruction.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 01:32 AM
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8. Not quite
Nuclear weapons are still in a category all of their own. No biological or chemical weapon can cause the sort of destruction a nuke can.



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NickB79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 02:32 AM
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11. With current biotechnology, I'd rate biological weapons as
MORE destructive than nuclear weapons, when measured by the possible number of people killed. If someone were truly out to create a doomsday weapon that they could use to threaten the rest of the world, a genetically engineered, airborne virus could be devastating.
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TexasMexican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 02:00 AM
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9. how do we fight...
Aliens and asteroids if we dont have nukes. :nuke:
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Fescue4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 02:03 AM
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10. Doesnt matter. The cats out of the bag
And if any nation has them, I sure as hell want the US to have'm.
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