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How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?
Loconut1389 writes "According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has a revised doctrine to be signed in the next few weeks would give the president the authority for a preemptive nuclear strike. I would hope that this is a move designed to say we mean business and then never use it, but the means is there for mutual assured destruction."
My original submission was early this morning and also had a few extras like "Doesnt anybody remember the W.O.P.R.?
I dont want to glow in the dark...
They will never stop until somebody makes the
....this whole Iraq mess in the first place by nuking them all? After all they "did" have weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them, right?
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A preemptive nukular strike, sir.
TLoM: Nerds + DDR + Rednecks for the win!
As long as no other country builds an automatic retaliation system without telling us. I wonder where that idea would come from?
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you know, I think I saw some shifty looking Arab type (they all look the same, and are evildoers, arent they?) hanging around Crawford and Cheney's new multi-million dollar house. I recommend we pre-emptively nuke those two sites, just in case. I think I even saw some WMD around there! I have satellitely photos proving all this!
Is this really necessary? Can't we just threaten to place our enemies under the protection of FEMA? That seems to achieve the mass casualty effect just fine, and yet the environmental mess it creates will only take a few decades to clear...
Kent M Pitman
Philosopher, Technologist, Writer
It was a project funded by DARPA. These "shells" are fired from a mobile walking tank's rail guns. Theoretically, it could fire a nuke that is untracable and therefore cannot be stopped.
Summary : Metal Gear?!?
May we can stump bush with Tic Tac Toe. He'll realize he can never win!
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Greg Stillson?
So... Muslims Neocons have a foot fetish? That explains a LOT. ;P
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Slashdot has migrated from tech news to "Tech News and Anything We Can Bitch At Bush Over"
Next topic - Is George Bush adversely affecting the frame rate of graphics card?
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This word "pre-emptive"... I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I have heard rumors that authority to use atomic shells was (to be) vested in field commanders, possibly as low as the regiment level.
I think the lowest level for authorizing nuclear attacks should be Air Force Colonels, provided that their bodily fluids are pure.
We had that opportunity? November 2004, you say? Oops.
Well, if your party had nominated someone with more brains or charisma than a cabbage, you might have succeeded.
Gentlemen, gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
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So if it launches them and they go over 12,00 miles to their target, do we get $0.15 each additional mile plus damages
The Pentagon only gave gave him exactly what he asked for: the capability to order a "nucular" first strike.
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Hell, Washington had this power, he just didn't have any nukes.
What did Florida State University do to anyone?
At some point, what heavy-handed tactics achieve is that the countries instead are controlled by the extremists.
Don't let GWB hear you calling him that, oh you ment... nevermind.....
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