Soaring, Cryptography and Nuclear Weapons

[bmecher]

Yeah, Most Americans are worried about Tickle Me Elmo, and other similar "I-Phoness" that they are surprised when this crap comes up. I think a lot of the media needs to be paying better attention to their "newsworthiness" criteria. It is their duty to keep the public informed right? The Internet is vastly making up for this deficiency.

[Ignare]

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[ewsflys]

As of today, the USA spends as much for military as the rest of this world, only the USA has actually bombed with nuclear weapons killing hundreds of thousands, still is the leading arms exporter of the world. Exporting death and misery. All while lecturing the rest of the world what they should do, while they do Nothing. Why hate and fear ? Because we have made an US and THEM game. And as long as we have that instead of understanding that it is US, the humans, until then, nothing will change.

[SebastienBoisson]

"Because we have made an US and THEM game. And as long as we have that instead of understanding that it is US, the humans, until then, nothing will change."

Exactly! This philosophy applies to so many conflicts.

[Sciolist321]

His point about ringing Paulo Alto with a thousand nuclear reactors makes no sense. It carries the same risk as ringing the city with reactors - what risk is that? He doesn't quantify it, it's just playing on the bad press of nuclear energy

[luckige]

warm applause, yeah right

[GliderGuy50]

To read the article on which this talk is based, do a Google search on

hellman nuclear risk glider

and it should be the top one.

[Qulopuaa]

Actually in a game like WoW a droprate of 1/1000 is acceptble and the drop will actually happen- that really easy- so I guess a nukelear diaster is really fesable today.

[exenrontexas]

I recall speeches by the then SAC commander, Curtis LeMay, that we should nuke China and Korea during the Korean war, Cuba during the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam during that war. When the N. Koreans seized the USS Pueblo, the carrier that I was on waited until a Soviet recon plane came from Valdivostock and then put the nukes on the flight deck, as a warning. There were many who wanted to nuke North Korea. My warning is there are many in the military who are eager to nuke someone.

[cdrikari]

There may have been. A lot has changed in the 40 years since the Pueblo incident.

Assuming that the present = the past doesn't work well.

[pinochet222]

should (for instance) Putin's regime get away with anything in their proclaimed "sphere of influence" just because they got enough nukes and a confrontation would be too dangerous?

I don't like this mindset, reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 kind of world order.

Free, peaceful nations must be protected against tyranny by the international community (that should not necessarily mean a military intervention, but isolation and financial pressure, etc)

[ekimelyobo]

anyone know what reading he refers to when talking about nato not advancing past east germany ?

[GliderGuy50]

"Wilson's Ghost," by McNamara and Blight (2003), p 85-86: Secretary of State [James Baker] ... asked Gorbachev, Would you prefer to see a united Germany outside of NATO and with no U.S. forces, perhaps with its own nuclear weapons? Or would you prefer are a united Germany to be tied to NATO, with assurances that NATOs jurisdiction would not shift one inch eastward from its present position?"

[ekimelyobo]

nice one bud

[catsaysmeow007]

very interesting, thank you.