The U.S. Removes the Nuclear Brakes

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    adnz
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    # mai/05


    http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0526-23.htm

    Se alguém se importa leia.

    SoldierOfFear6
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    # mai/05
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    Duvido qeu essa porra de site seja confiável.

    adnz
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    # mai/05
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    No google eu procurei "The U.S. Removes the Nuclear Brakes" e deu mais de 10 páginas. :)

    adnz
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    Por isso vão morrer burros, não lêem as coisas.

    Quito
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    # mai/05
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    nao me importo...

    adnz
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    # mai/05
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    Eai?
    Ninguém vai ler mesmo?

    Arthas_2
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    # mai/05
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    nao vou ler cara, eu nao entendi qse nada...domingo me deixa cansado, sem conseguir fazer nada praticamente

    thetrooper
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    # mai/05
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    é sobre oque?
    é em que lígua?
    é em que fonte?
    qual o tamanho da fonte?
    de quando é a reportagem?
    quem a escreveu?
    porque o fez?
    é imporntante para o mundo?
    é importante para minha vida?

    flea fan
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    Melhor, assim o mundo acaba mais rápido.

    adnz
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    # mai/05
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    flea fan
    Alguém que leu. :D

    flea fan
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    adnz
    Ainda há salvação, todos juntos: "VAI, PLANETA"

    adnz
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    flea fan
    Sabia que se 6 bilhões de pessoas pulassem ao mesmo tempo os eixos da Terra poderiam ficar RETOS?

    adnz
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    o eixo alias

    Space Ace
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    # mai/05
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    caralho,se for verdade o mundo ta fodido

    GuitarHouse
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    # mai/05 · Editado por: Moderador
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    eu tinha ouvido falar disso, q eles tavam ate pensando e enviar novamente armas nucleares ao espaco para defesa "interna"

    mas acho q ESSE CASO ai eh hoax..conplan 8022

    LeandroP
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    Published on Thursday, May 26, 2005 by Haaretz (Israel)
    The U.S. Removes the Nuclear Brakes
    by Reuven Pedatzur

    Under the cloak of secrecy imparted by use of military code names, the American administration has been taking a big - and dangerous - step that will lead to the transformation of the nuclear bomb into a legitimate weapon for waging war.

    Ever since the terror attack of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has gradually done away with all the nuclear brakes that characterized American policy during the Cold War. No longer are nuclear bombs considered "the weapon of last resort." No longer is the nuclear bomb the ultimate means of deterrence against nuclear powers, which the United States would never be the first to employ.

    In the era of a single, ruthless superpower, whose leadership intends to shape the world according to its own forceful world view, nuclear weapons have become a attractive instrument for waging wars, even against enemies that do not possess nuclear arms.

    Remember the code name "CONPLAN 8022." Last week, the Washington Post reported that this unintelligible nickname masks a military program whose implementation could drag the world into nuclear war.

    CONPLAN 8022 is a series of operational plans prepared by Stratcom, the U.S. Army's Strategic Command, which calls for preemptive nuclear strikes against Iran and North Korea. One of the plan's major components is the use of nuclear weapons to destroy the underground facilities where North Korea and Iran are developing their nuclear weapons. The standard ordnance deployed by the Americans is not capable of destroying these facilities.

    After the war in Afghanistan, it became clear that despite the widespread use of huge conventional bombs, "bunker-busters," some of the bunkers dug by Al-Qaida remained untouched. This discovery soon led to a decision to develop nuclear weapons that would be able to penetrate and destroy the underground shelters in which the two member states of the "axis of evil" are developing weapons of mass destruction.

    The explanation given by administration experts calls these "small" bombs, which would have a moderate effect on the environment. The effect of the bomb would not be discernible above ground, the radioactive fallout would be negligible, and the "collateral damage" caused to civilians would be minimal.

    Accordingly, America's deterrent credibility against the "rogue states" would grow, because it is clear that the U.S. would allow itself to make use of these "small bombs" - as they would destroy the weapon sites but not cause the death of many civilians.

    The war in Iraq, whose purpose was the destruction of Saddam Hussein's development facilities and stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but which led to America's miring in the Iraqi swamp, has increased the attraction of nuclear weapons. After all, it would have been much simpler and more logical to destroy Saddam's facilities with a few "small bombs," which would not have caused any real damage to the civilian population, than to become entangled in a ground war that has resulted in 150,000 American soldiers treading water in the Iraqi swamp.

    The problem with this argument is that it is hopeless. To understand this, one may analyze the effect of a nuclear attack of the sort posited by American military strategists in CONPLAN 8022. Obviously, the U.S. would not use less than five to ten "small bombs" were it to attack Iran or North Korea, since, considering the number of relevant targets in the two countries, anything less would fail to achieve the goal of deterrence and prevention. According to the plan, each bomb would have a 10-kiloton yield - about two-thirds of that of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    Each detonation of a bomb a few meters underground would destroy most of the buildings on the surface to a range of two kilometers. After the explosion, there would be a need to quickly evacuate civilians from an area of 100 square kilometers, to avoid the deadly effects of the radioactive fallout; buildings, agricultural crops and livestock would be affected in an area of thousands of square kilometers, and depending on wind direction and velocity, there could be a need to evacuate more people from thousands of additional square kilometers.

    None of this takes into account the political and psychological repercussions of using nuclear weapons for the first time in more than 60 years. The Bush administration regards all this as "limited collateral damage."

    The nuclear policy that the Bush administration continues to formulate, including plans for a preemptive nuclear strike against states that do not possess such weapons and the development of new nuclear weapons - is a recipe for disaster. It is a policy that blurs the line between conventional and nuclear war. This blurring could undermine the relative strategic stability that has set in since the Cold War.

    In addition, the Bush administration's approach contains a message that is liable to encourage Iran and North Korea to reassess the contribution such a weapon would make to their own nuclear policies, possibly providing the incentive that would accelerate such development.

    Herein lies an inherent contradiction in the American approach that on the one hand acts with commendable determination to prevent the proliferation of nuclear arms, but on the other hand, contributes toward it by adopting an irresponsible nuclear policy.


    Eu só entendi a parte que diz: the book's on the table

    flea fan
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    adnz
    Sabia que se 6 bilhões de pessoas pulassem ao mesmo tempo os eixos da Terra poderiam ficar RETOS?
    Acho que isso é lenda, hein?

    Locohawa
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    # mai/05
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    Como não odiar os Estados Unidos? Prepotentes malditos loucos para dominar o mundo.. tomara que morram tudo

    pedrunk
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    # mai/05
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    xo ler

    Librelon
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    # mai/05
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    Locohawa
    Isso é preconceito tb.......
    Muitos estadusunidenses são burros mesmo, mas é assim em TODOS os países...

    adnz
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    \o/

    adnz
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    A idéia que eu tenho sobre os Estados Unidos é que a população americana parece que foi hipnotizada, não entendo muito disso, não sei quem ta certo ou quem ta errado, mas onde mortes existem nenhum lado está certo, acho que os americanos estão fechados lá e achando que só eles existem.

    Locohawa
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    adnz
    CNN rlz

    adnz
    Veterano
    # mai/05
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    Locohawa
    cnn?

    Locohawa
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    adnz
    Esse canal aí faz lavagem cerebral nos americanos..

    adnz
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    Locohawa
    Olha cara, ainda bem que tem os que se salvam. :)

    jorgellq
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    # mai/05
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    Li e nao acho verdadeira, senti um forte cheiro de hoax nessa noticia.
    se fosse verdade tinha saido em tudo quanto é meio de comunicação.

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