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Nuclear Proliferation
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| SuspicionVandit |
Do you think nukes have a place in our world?
any countries you'd scratch off?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nuclear_weapons
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
PR China
France
Germany
India
Iran
Iraq
Israel Japan
Netherlands
North Korea
Pakistan
Poland
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Syria
Taiwan (ROC)
United Kingdom
United States
code:
Country #Nukes
United States 4,075 / 5,535
Russia 5,200 / 8,800
United Kingdom 200
France <350
China 160-400
India 100-140
Pakistan ~60
North Korea 0-10
I don't think they have a place. If Call of Duty 4 has taught me anything, it's that we have bombs that are smart enough to take out a hospital full of insurgents or milk factories full of chemical weapons. Nukes make everyone the victim of a cause of the government's policies, bad people and good people alike. If someone needs to go down, it should be done with the accuracy of a M4A1 carbine assault rifle. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
If someone needs to go down, it should be done with the accuracy of a M4A1 carbine assault rifle. |
GET SOME!!! GET SOOOOMEEE! |
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| Dr. DAS |
The only time a nuclear weapon has been in Canada is when we burn them in our CANDU reactors.
Canada is not, and has never been a nuclear weapon state and doesn't belong on that list. |
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| nchs09 |
| Nobody should have them really..... |
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| Lira |
| Since when have we got nuclear weapons in Brazil?! |
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| elFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dr. DAS
The only time a nuclear weapon has been in Canada is when we burn them in our CANDU reactors.
Canada is not, and has never been a nuclear weapon state and doesn't belong on that list. |
when the "canadian nuclear arsenal" is mentioned it is usually meant as NATO's nuclear arsenal.
there has been nuclear weapons in the territories in the north. I will have to locate the article for you, it was during the cold war. |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
when the "canadian nuclear arsenal" is mentioned it is usually meant as NATO's nuclear arsenal.
there has been nuclear weapons in the territories in the north. I will have to locate the article for you, it was during the cold war. |
Interesting.
I thought the only missles in the North were Dief's interceptors.
If you have the article, please share.:) |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
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Country #Nukes
United States 4,075 / 5,535
Russia 5,200 / 8,800
United Kingdom 200
France <350
China 160-400
India 100-140
Pakistan ~60
North Korea 0-10
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Missing Israel. They've got 200-500 nukes. I think Iran should have a nuke. Seems to me the only way to resist "regime change" is to have a nuke. |
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| elFreak |
looking now...having trouble finding it, but for now.
| quote: | To defend North America against a possible enemy attack, Canada and the United States began to work very closely together in the 1950s. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) created a joint air-defence system. In northern Canada, the Distant Early Warning Line (Dew Line) was established to give warning of Soviet bombers heading over the north pole. Great debate broke out while John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister as to whether Canada should accept U.S. nuclear weapons on its territory. Diefenbaker had already agreed to buy the BOMARC missile system from the Americans, which would be useless without nuclear warheads, but balked at permitting the weapons into Canada.
In the 1963 Canadian election, Diefenbaker was replaced by the famed diplomat Lester B. Pearson, who accepted the warheads. |
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| Lira |
According to Wikipedia, Brazil is among the powers which possess the ability to create nuclear weapons but has agreed not to do so (under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as reaffirmed by the Two Plus Four Treaty). , and that's true, as far as I know.
Why are we on the list!? :conf: |
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| elFreak |
for Dr DAS
| quote: | From the 1960s to 1984, there were American nuclear weapons in Canada[1]. These were placed under dual key rules whereby both Canadian and American authorities had to authorize a launch. Pierre Trudeau, Pearson's successor as prime minister, was opposed to these missiles, and in 1971, declared Canada a non-nuclear country. The missiles were moved out of Canada. Despite the fact that the Nuclear warheads were never placed in the country, due to agreements between Canada and the United States, Canada purchased Nuclear weapons through a tactical budget of the Department of National Defence under the projects NORAD, and the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.
The Royal Canadian Air Force maintained a stockpile of AIR-2A Genie unguided nuclear air-to-air rockets as the primary wartime weapon on the CF-101 Voodoo all-weather interceptor after 1965. The rockets were held by detachments of the United States Air Force at the Canadian Voodoo bases, and would have been released to Canada if conflict threatened. These were removed in 1984, when the CF-18 Hornet entered squadron service and the Voodoo was retired.
The Canadian Army operated the MGR-1 Honest John nuclear surface-to-surface rocket as part of its land forces commitment to NATO. No. 1 SSM Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery, attached to 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group stationed in West Germany, maintained a total of four rocket launchers for Honest John missiles fitted with the W31 nuclear warhead between 1964 and 1970.
While it has no more permanently stationed nuclear weapons, Canada continues to allow nuclear-armed American planes and naval vessels to use Canadian facilities. There is, however, some local and popular objection to this federal policy. The port city of Vancouver is, by its own bylaws and signage, a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone", although it is not clear if the American military vessels entering its harbour are free of such weapons, or how such a bylaw would be enforced. Canada also continues to remain under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) nuclear "umbrella", although the government has attempted to modify NATO policy, particularly during the period that Lloyd Axworthy was Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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