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."

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Empty the Cities

[Baldrson]

This is a theme covered in a work-in-progress titled Postcivil Society: Empty the Cities:

New Orleans may be rebuilt but there are good reasons to continue the trend and empty the cities. A pandemic in the coming weeks may make this all too obvious. Information technology has largely changed the neolithic basis of civilization and additional innovations will usher in a postcivil era of much richer human choice and sustainability. Postcivil society is coming. The transition will be rough. Empty the cities now to minimize human suffering during the transition...

How about a nice game on Linux instead

[suso]

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/2nd_Bi-annual _Linux_Gaming_Fest

what the?

[EmperorKagato]

oh sugar snacks.

Re:Pre-emption a severe move with these weapons

[ltmdweaver]

Try reading on for size. How many underground nuclear tests have there been. Are we any more dead? How devastating blowing up a small nuke under several hundred feet of earth (or more likely desert sand)??? How big were the mushroom clouds for all the underground tests in Nevada?? For as many tests as there were (underground) you would barely know they even happened.

Re:Yes, there was

[Type-R]

So hows that working out for you?

Re:Yes, there was

[AoT]

As if the brits care if Belfast burns?

Come on, they tried it themselves plenty. This way they can blame it on those nigh uncontrolable loyalists.

Then the IRA gets to blame the retaliation on the provos.

Re:Basic

[dedazo]

So we agree then. Thanks.