The difference is that conventional ways of killing millions don't leave a radioactive wasteland after them and especially that they don't spawn radioactive clouds that could drift towards Europe and Israel.
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The difference is that conventional ways of killing millions don't leave a radioactive wasteland after them and especially that they don't spawn radioactive clouds that could drift towards Europe and Israel.
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Europe has been happy to test much larger nuclear weapons in Australia and in the Pacific...Originally Posted by Myth
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Decades ago.
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19 years ago and 170 plus tests since the '60s for one EU country to be pedantic. Stopped only after protests and state sponsored terrorism to try and prevent those protests.
So if the EU will happily irradiate its territories and former colonies for science, I'm fully confident that they would do the same in the ME for economics er war on terror.
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There is potential value in irradiating your own territory through tests. There is pretty-much never value in doing so to any territory in the context of a war.
Why don't you grasp this distinction?
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Well heck, now you've got me wishing this was a lets get rid of trident thread, at least it wouldnt be as pointless as trying to guilt europe over irradiating uninhabitd islands and uninhabitable deser.
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I do grasp the distinction.
If you are prepared to irradiate your own territory for science why wouldn't you be prepared to irradiate an enemies territory to wipe out a pest if the ROI was there.
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Because it never makes strategic sense.
Also, I want to hear about these more recent tests - because afaik Britain stopped in the late 50's.
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And before that It has been happy to colonize the Americas and Australia, what is your point?
The art of war, then, is governed by five constant
factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations,
when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field.
These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth;
(4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline.
Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
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He was just pointing out the typical European double standards and I agree with him.
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