John Hawkins spent the weekend in New York to appear on Japanese television to talk about nuclear weapons. Believe it or not, I almost got invited to that based on my peace plan. I think I would have been a huge hit in Japan.
Anyway, it sounds like what I expected. The panel Hawkins was arguing against were a bunch of people with their heads in the sky arguing for all nuclear weapons to disappear and for it to rain gum drops. If any of those people actually cared about no one getting nuked, they’d have the courage to come up with some sort of realistic plan.
I’m all for America pretending to disarm itself to trick others to follow along, though, but I don’t think any countries will dumb enough to fall for it.
Here’s an idea: Implement your tax on “being any country other than America”, then waive it and call it foreign aid.
Regarding the “sculpture” in front of the U.N. building representing a revolver with its barrel tied in an overhand knot: exactly how long would that barrel be if the knot were untied? Kept to scale, I’m thinking it would have to be about 36″ and that’s a lot of barrel.
I dunno, Frank. Are these the same countries dumb enough to think Obama is the real deal and not the steaming stinking pile of crap he really is? If they are, they’ll buy it. Then we get to see the expression on their faces when we yell SURPRISE, FOOLED ‘YA!
Well, I’d say if any nation has the right to want to get rid of all nuclear weapons, it is Japan. Just saying.
I would imagine so. At least at that time, the Japanese appeared to enjoy their “combat” up-close and personal. What fun would just blowing up a city be if they couldn’t enjoy pillaging and raping and torturing gaijin civilians?
Dear Sanjayrupta Pravati,
Did you fail every history course you’ve ever taken, or just the ones dealing with the 20th century. Go read monkey-boy – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties. The Japanese murdered 16 million Chinese civilians, 4 million Indonesian civilians, and 1 million Vietnamese civilians during WWII. And that doesn’t include the 100’s of thousands of other civilians they slaughtered throughout Asia. Sorry, but Japan clearly begged to have nukes dropped on them. BTW, dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved Japanese lives. But more importantly, it saved American and Allied lives.
Japan is arguably our friend today, but they were in serious need of some nuclear-explosion induced attitude adjustment during WWII.
You hear that instead of putting nukes in space, someone has figured out you can put laser guided solid metal rods the size of, say a telephone pole, and then launch them down like asteroids. In theory it would hit with the power of a really big nuke, without being a nuke. Plus no radiation, so when we drill for their oil afterwards, we won’t have to wear lead suits.
If we could figure out how to put several thousand of those things into orbit, then I would be all for decreasing our nuke arsenal. Plus we could always destroy someone’s capital, and just blame it on an asteroid.
#7 – Marvin, There ya go! I like that plan! We could classify them as international space station building materials. All wrapped in foil, who’d know the difference?
#7 and #8: A similar plan was designed by the Russians in the 1960’s and then banned by treaty in 1967. It’s called “FOBS” – Fractional Orbital Bombardment System. The US had one on the drawing boards as well. (Both were claimed to be conventional explosive systems, however.)
It’s a terrific plan, though. I’ve been advocating it for years.
Oh, and HCG is spot on. Thanks for the history lesson.
I’m all for tricking people into getting rid of their nukes while we keep ours. But once they refuse to get rid of their nukes and we have to nuke them, I think our cover will be blown.
#10 “…I think our cover will be blown.”
You made me LOL. Thanks.