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Post by Pacifico on Aug 18, 2023 16:44:16 GMT
No country since WW2 that has nuclear weapons has ever been attacked.
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Post by Dan Dare on Aug 18, 2023 17:03:32 GMT
Israel?
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Post by Orac on Aug 19, 2023 9:53:47 GMT
Israel has Schrodinger nuclear weapons. One thing is clear, even fully real nuclear weapons don't offer much protection against being attacked by international people trafficking rings
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Post by Bentley on Aug 19, 2023 10:02:31 GMT
Nukes would never used as a first line of defence . No enemy of Israel has managed to become an existential threat .
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Post by Dan Dare on Aug 19, 2023 10:11:16 GMT
Since 1967 at the latest Israel has always had Uncle Sam in its corner so it has never has a need to flex its muscles.
In the meantime things proceed apace in the background. The latest Dolfin subs it has finagled out of Germany were fitted with plus-sized torpedo tubes which can accommodate Israeli developed 'Popeye Turbo' nuclear cruise missiles.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Aug 19, 2023 10:51:10 GMT
We make the warheads ourselves and we're the ones with the keys to the launchers. It's much, much more complicated than that. Do you seriously believe that the US would provide such lethal weapons to any foreign state, even a poodle one like the UK, without including a mechanism to disable them?
Don't all Trident missiles have to be returned to the US for periodic maintenance and software 'updates'?
It sounds like an iphone. You own it, but not in the way you are used to understanding the word own.
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Trident
Aug 21, 2023 10:35:28 GMT
via mobile
Post by johnofgwent on Aug 21, 2023 10:35:28 GMT
We make the warheads ourselves and we're the ones with the keys to the launchers. it’s been a while but i’m PRETTY sure unless Radio 4 is off air we have no power to launch unilaterally, unlike France who can and NATO CONFIDENTIAL on a document used to mean ‘don’t tell the french’ The bit about radio 4 is an urban myth. What is NOT an urban myth is the radio time signal broadcast from rugby on the same frequency as radio 4 long wave. Lack of THAT where it should be received was a cause for concern
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Post by Orac on Aug 21, 2023 10:38:28 GMT
I would have thought the fail-safe would be a bit more definitive than that ie Gary Linker failing to make a regular broadcast
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