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Musicmystery -> World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 3:54:23 PM)
by Daniel Schorr, April 14, 2010: "The era of nuclear confrontation between superpowers may have passed, but the threat of nuclear weapons remains. NPR Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr warns that the international community is not prepared for the threat of nuclear attack from groups with no fixed address." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125997188

jlf1961 -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 3:55:17 PM)
And this should be a surprise how?

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:01:50 PM)
Perhaps the content of the commentary will prove instructive. Certainly it's an issue when people complain about Obama reducing nuclear arms (which is actually just reaffirming a 2000 treaty).

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:04:39 PM)
Question. Isn't this fear mongering?

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:05:51 PM)
Examining reality?

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:08:25 PM)
How is it reality. We are not nuked.

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:10:31 PM)
pahb, Here's a poll for you. Choose one of the options below: 1) Read the piece (or listen to it) so that you have a clue what it's about. Then you may comment if you wish. 2) Shut the fuck up and move on to another thread. Thank you.

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:14:17 PM)
talk about a turn around. The sky is not falling!

Jeffff -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:25:52 PM)
One of the things that has bot herd Me for a while now is that while I have to remove my shoes and give up my shampoo at O'Hare, less than 2% of the freight coming onto this country is inspected. Every day thousands of cargo containers just roll right in. If I dwell on that, it scares me. Many of enemies, the people who hate us, have placed a greater value on the next life than on this one.

Politesub53 -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:29:34 PM)
MM. I was under the impression that the treaty on plutonium stockpiles was agreed back in 2000. This was halted by the Bush government who didnt agree with the verification procedures, due to cost. The missile reductions are new, although a continuation of the start agreement.

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:30:33 PM)
Yes.

Jeffff -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:42:28 PM)
The cost of any of this is going to seem marginal if.....or when one of these fuckers goes off in someones home town

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:44:20 PM)
...I dont get it. I post that there will be nuke war with Iran- and I am nuts. Some one posts this one - and people now are worried. So war goes off. We love war. He who lives by the sword,........................ dies in the shoe isle! stomp

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:45:57 PM)
Here's the irony. Folks are concerned that we have nukes for deterrent. But nation-states aren't the risk anymore. Yet we maintain rhetoric and policy as if we are still in the cold war. It's a dangerous delusion.

Politesub53 -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:48:13 PM)
Pahunk, for what its worth i think the main danger of nuclear war will still come from Russia or China, unlike Iran they both have the capabilities. There is also a danger of a nuclear attack by terrorists, i think this would more likely be in terms of a suitcase bomb, or something like that.

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:49:12 PM)
...there are not really nations left in the traditional sense. not with WTO- GATT- and the like. What will worry solve- it aint like the grid is gonna listen to yous. No. The grid eats and consumes war-- and soon it will all be on drones- connected to your front door.

kdsub -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:51:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery by Daniel Schorr, April 14, 2010: "The era of nuclear confrontation between superpowers may have passed, but the threat of nuclear weapons remains. NPR Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr warns that the international community is not prepared for the threat of nuclear attack from groups with no fixed address." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125997188 This is all fine and dandy as long as my backyard is not turned into a nuclear waste storage site. From what I understood we have offered to take the waste from Europe and Russia and store it here. One of the very big drawbacks of nuclear power is the radioactive waste and its half-life. It is dangerous and expensive to store and I wonder if we are going to be compensated for doing it? And do we want such dangerous materials concentrated in our country for thousands of years. Would it not be better to stop nuclear power production until new technologies for productions and disposal of waste is developed? Butch

Jeffff -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:52:15 PM)
Following your logic PA, the nation states have no interest in a nuclear war. It would fuck up there business. Allah, and Jesus, don't DO business. They welcome you to a well earned eternity.

pahunkboy -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:53:16 PM)
Butch= what about the depleted uranium that is everywhere in Iraq. -- in the end- well- it wont be up to -- -- hopefully god has the last word.

Musicmystery -> RE: World Isn't Prepared For Nuclear Threat (4/14/2010 4:55:23 PM)
quote: This is all fine and dandy as long as my backyard is not turned into a nuclear waste storage site. From what I understood we have offered to take the waste from Europe and Russia and store it here. No---we will continue what we've been doing, reprocessing it for use in nuclear power plants.

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