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I tend to agree with you on the Nuclear issue floppybootstomp it also has its peaceful side to it as well as you can testify in health care,
Not quite sure what you mean there, please enlighten, how does nuclear deterrent/power issues affect NHS?
bootneck002 said:but what I worry about is when and if the bad guys get hold of it like Iran etc, I don't think they would worry to much how dirty it was or who it was aimed at. So far it has stopped any major power using it even when there was a lot of saber rattling in the 50's, 60's & 70's lets hope it will never happens other wise it would be time to place ones head between one's knees and kiss one's a**e good by .
A Dubliners song I do believe
Well yes, that's what I said really, you can't uninvent what's been invented.
At the moment the so-called 'good guys' (that's us) have the deterrent and certain middle eastern countries (like Iran) don't. But they do have the knowledge to build stuff that could annihilate us, they just don't have the materials.
They say they want the materials to build nuclear power stations but I strongly suspect they want to vapourise Trafalgar Square.
So far the Western Countries have placed trade embargoes which as far as we know is preventing certain countries from purchasing the recipe ingredients for a nuclear device.
Quite how those embargoes are placed I have no idea as Iran, for instance, is an independent country and I can't see how we, legally, can dictate what they can and cannot buy but that's the way it is is (which is probably a good thing). No wonder they hate us, maybe they do just want to build power stations (yeah, right).
I also forgot to mention in my previous post that if we were to shed our nuclear capability (and this probably includes Wales & Cornwall though I'm not sure ) what would we do to keep the Lion from the door? Rely on America? Come on, they already bailed us out 60 years ago and considering how we treated them during their formation (see Canada/destruction of Washington) I'm surprised they helped us out at all, many many American lives were lost defeating Hitler and the USA didn't really gain a great deal from it.
Oh, and Canadians, Kiwis, Aussies, Jamaicans, Poles, Southern Irish, Indians, Pakistanis and more. WW2 was a very strange war, not least for the Russians switching allegiance part way through
As for a country such as Iran threatening us with a nuclear strike, it's only a matter of time before they can but all the time they know we could turn their entire country to a country lawn comprised of nothing but glazed glass, they probably won't. I hope.
bootneck02 said:Well done on the renewal of the contracts wish you lots of luck on the work front, just glad I am now out of the workforce and got my pensions, but worried about the wife as she has got another 12 years before she is 65 and with her health not sure she will be able to keep working till then as she has lots of problems with arthritis.
Good luck to the missus, hope the arthiritis recedes, life sure do get harder as one gets older it seems.