Thread: This is Why Iran Should Not Go Nuclear,

Pakistan nuclear security questioned
Lack of knowledge about arsenal may limit U.S. options

When the United States learned in 2001 that Pakistani scientists had shared nuclear secrets with members of al-Qaeda, an alarmed Bush administration responded with tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment such as intrusion detectors and ID systems to safeguard Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

But Pakistan remained suspicious of U.S. aims and declined to give U.S. experts direct access to the half-dozen or so bunkers where the components of its arsenal of about 50 nuclear weapons are stored. For the officials in Washington now monitoring Pakistan's deepening political crisis, the experience offered both reassurance and grounds for concern.

Protection for Pakistan's nuclear weapons is considered equal to that of most Western nuclear powers. But U.S. officials worry that their limited knowledge about the locations and conditions in which the weapons are stored gives them few good options for a direct intervention to prevent the weapons from falling into unauthorized hands.

Pakistan nuclear security questioned - Washington Post - MSNBC.com

For those who say that it is Iran's "right" to protect itself with these weapons, or that if we have them, then they should also, or any other insane arguement that you use to to justify doing nothing over Iran's nuke program, I have just one question. When the country finally falls into chaos, and it will, what happens to all of the big boom sticks?

All of that also being a perfectly valid argument against anyone else at all having nuclear weapons.

Show the worst bullies on the block, I'll show you the world's nuclear nations.

Why are there google ads on my post?

Originally Posted by Dr.Knuckles

Why are there google ads on my post?

Must be the new PHW

Originally Posted by Dr.Knuckles

All of that also being a perfectly valid argument against anyone else at all having nuclear weapons.

Show the worst bullies on the block, I'll show you the world's nuclear nations.

The big difference being that the "bullies" are rather stable and have shown little or no desire to use such weapons. The splinter groups that have the opportunity to aquire nukes when they overthrow one of these ME regimes are simply scary.

Originally Posted by mdmx96

The big difference being that the "bullies" are rather stable and have shown little or no desire to use such weapons. The splinter groups that have the opportunity to aquire nukes when they overthrow one of these ME regimes are simply scary.

Well, that's been true so far. However, we haven't been through a world-wide depression, like the one we may be facing now, since the dawn of the nuclear age. With economic hardship comes social and political turmoil which could easily lead to the destabilization of those "good" nations which possess nukes.

Of course, the only logical answer to nuclear weapons is the outright banning of them world-wide. But, those nations which like the implied threat of their use will never go along with that as it's become a staple of their foreign policies.

Maybe the second best answer is to help every nation get some, thereby expanding the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction to a world-wide level, effectively ending the threat of their use.

Originally Posted by kit

Well, that's been true so far. However, we haven't been through a world-wide depression, like the one we may be facing now, since the dawn of the nuclear age. With economic hardship comes social and political turmoil which could easily lead to the destabilization of those "good" nations which possess nukes.

Of course, the only logical answer to nuclear weapons is the outright banning of them world-wide. But, those nations which like the implied threat of their use will never go along with that as it's become a staple of their foreign policies.

Maybe the second best answer is to help every nation get some, thereby expanding the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction to a world-wide level, effectively ending the threat of their use.

MAD does not work with radicals who believe that this life is just a pit stop on their way to 72 virgins.