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How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the we-never-learn dept.

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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  1. Re:Mutual? by guyjr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    China, France, the UK, probably North Korea, Israel, and what's left of the former USSR. (that we know of).

  2. Re:Preemptive strike against biological weapons. by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

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