Ace Rimmer wrote:Australia first damn it!
Australia is probably already under it
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FedRebel wrote:North Korea only has a hand full of short range nukes, and they'll piss of China (NK's only 'ally') if they use them
Ace Rimmer wrote:Australia first damn it!Wiki wrote:The treaty was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, opened for signature on March 16, 1998, and closed on March 15, 1999. The agreement came into force on February 16, 2005 following ratification by Russia on November 18, 2004. As of December 2006, a total of 169 countries and other governmental entities have ratified the agreement (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries).[6][7] Notable exceptions include the United States and Australia. Other countries, like India and China, which have ratified the protocol, are not required to reduce carbon emissions under the present agreement despite their relatively large populations.
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adam_the_scouser wrote:What I wondered about is why do the USA and Russia have so many nukes? Britain has 4 submarines with enough nukes to hit every country and we all know it would only take a few nukes to totally mess up our world. So if you have a million nukes or a thousand nukes it doesn't really matter cos once somebody fires one then they are dead!
MoonHill wrote:adam_the_scouser wrote:What I wondered about is why do the USA and Russia have so many nukes? Britain has 4 submarines with enough nukes to hit every country and we all know it would only take a few nukes to totally mess up our world. So if you have a million nukes or a thousand nukes it doesn't really matter cos once somebody fires one then they are dead!
Redundancy.
Having four subs with enough nukes to hit every country is dandy, up until someone manages to sink three of them. Then you can only mess up a quarter of the Earth's population, which is just not trying all that hard.
The nuke building of the Cold War was done, in part, as a sort of machismo-style one-upsmanship. A sort of mutual "It doesn't matter if you destroy all the silos you know about, we've still got enough missiles to ruin your day, and the day of the entire planet, ten times over!" "Oh yeah, well we can say the same thing, except twelve times over!"
adam_the_scouser wrote:What I wondered about is why do the USA and Russia have so many nukes? Britain has 4 submarines with enough nukes to hit every country and we all know it would only take a few nukes to totally mess up our world. So if you have a million nukes or a thousand nukes it doesn't really matter cos once somebody fires one then they are dead!
Firestarter wrote:(they mention it in the movie The Departed)
Montyphy wrote:Firestarter wrote:(they mention it in the movie The Departed)
And in the movie "Planet of the Apes" they mention we will all be ruled by apes.
erratic wrote:Montyphy wrote:Firestarter wrote:(they mention it in the movie The Departed)
And in the movie "Planet of the Apes" they mention we will all be ruled by apes.
Well, we *are* apes, so that one has already been fulfilled.
Montyphy wrote:erratic wrote:Montyphy wrote:Firestarter wrote:(they mention it in the movie The Departed)
And in the movie "Planet of the Apes" they mention we will all be ruled by apes.
Well, we *are* apes, so that one has already been fulfilled.
According to 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe', we are ruled by mice from another dimension.
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