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29 Nov 12, 17:48
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Real Name: Alex Stephens
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I wish it would! But I can't see it happening in the next 100 years or so. Some other new type of weapon will replace them that are just as powerful if anything.
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29 Nov 12, 18:39
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Real Name: Gary C
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Laurel, MD, USA
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Originally Posted by Hurricane93
Can't these neutron sources be replaced ?
I mean, since the Plutonium or the Uranium hasn't degraded, then the weapon can still be made to work with some maintenance, correct ?
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As I understand it, yes. This is part of the logic behind agreeing to the test ban. The existing designs are sufficiently robust and their nucleotide decay chains are well enough understood that the owning nations have confidence that they will work if needed. |
29 Nov 12, 22:23
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Real Name: His Regal and Imperial Majesty
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Austin, Texas
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No one has any idea what the future may hold... but god, I hope they do.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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29 Nov 12, 23:27
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lf extraterrestials are passing by and need some emergency fuel we in their flex fuel reactors we could negotiate some of our old nuclear stockpiles for fusion technolgy or better yet Space cash!
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning... The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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30 Nov 12, 14:07
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Jepjep
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USA and Russia will most likely maintain the capability to wipeout the human race, so no, they will not disappear. However the tactical nukes might disappear because they are too effective and "appealing" weapons to use and would lower the threshold of using strategic nukes too much.
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30 Nov 12, 22:24
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Real Name: Mayor McCheese
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mega City Centralia
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Originally Posted by Hurricane93
I was wondering about the future of nuclear weapons. US and Russia are now signing treaties to reduce their nuclear arsenals, I read once that US had 30,000 warheads at its peak and now they reduced them to only 5,000 and they are reducing them even more. So now, would that anyhow mean that nuclear weapons will disappear from the world one day ?
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Doubt it.
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12,000 men all dead in one day. They would not renounce their heathen way. - The Bloody Verdict of Verden.
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01 Dec 12, 01:04
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Orbiting the Sun
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SAC taught me it's a matter of when and where rather than if...
It's gonna happen.
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America can carry herself and get along in pretty fair shape, but when she stops and picks up the whole world and puts it on her shoulders she just can’t “get it done.
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