Why you shouldn't worry about global warming

On September 11 2008 02:14 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
well I don't think it is any great mystery that a nuclear war would end all or most life.. putting that on some kind of a time table however is impossible.

On September 11 2008 05:52 Jibba wrote:
I don't think the US or Russia would ever really use nuclear weapons, especially since our conventional weapons are so "good" these days. A far greater concern, IMO, is the conflict between Pakistan, by far the most unstable nuclear country in the world, and India, a country with a weak military central command system. Neither country's weapons program is particularly advanced like the US, China or Russia and they really only have first strike capabilties, which is probably the riskiest part of the nuclear "game", like where the US and Russia were in 1947-50.

Look at the front page of BBC South Asia today. If the article is accurate (and it's based off the best calculations at the time, I don't think it's been disproven since) then China and the surrounding countries are put in a very poor position.

BTW, the predictions in that article/book are not based on large scale USA vs. USSR MAD style warfare, but really a relatively small conflict.

On September 11 2008 06:10 Fontong wrote:


Very true, most of the more advanced nations have policies against striking first with nuclear weapons. Iran is also a worry imo, but at this point I doubt they have nuclear weapons. In the future though they could pose a threat and I'm sure nuclear capability is high on their list of goals considering their desire to wipe Israel off the face of the planet.