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So is that the end of Iran’s nuclear programme, or is there more to it?
by cedws 1y ago
So is that the end of Iran’s nuclear programme, or is there more to it?
- swagasaurus-rex 1y agoThis is just another square in my world war three bingo board. Sits pretty close to breaking the nuclear taboo square.
- PeterHolzwarth 1y agoA country doesn't acquire nukes to use them. They acquire them to freeze specific layers of conflict. Actually using them among peers invites annihilation.
- swagasaurus-rex 1y agoAnnihilation, that would make a good square on the bingo board
- mensetmanusman 1y agoStatistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.
- PeterHolzwarth 1y agoIt turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.
- amoss 1y agoOn the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd008235 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...
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- giantg2 1y agoThey're committed. They'll rebuild. Just as Stuxnet just delayed things.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoPaper are committed to stop them it seems as well.
- hiddencost 1y agohttps://popular.info/p/what-will-happen-if-the-united-states https://popular.info/p/what-will-happen-if-the-united-states This is the end of any hope. Iran will now do everything in its power to get one. And it has all the skills it needs. Refinement keeps getting easier.
- PeterHolzwarth 1y agoThey've been doing anything in their power to get nuclear weapons for decades! This isn't some new trend that just occurred to them last week.
- hotmeals 1y agoTerminator Skynet rules, they just delayed it.