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NYC rally demands end to nuclear weapons

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“Hundreds. Thousands. Doesn’t matter. They’re all bad,” said Hal Alterwein, 75. “All you need is one nut case to blow it up.”

This cat is spot on. That's why you dnt let Iranian mullahs or NK regime get their hands on one.

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Someone tried to tell me here the reason we haven't had WWIII is because we have nuclear weapons. And yet we've come within a whisker's width of the Big One several times in the past 50 years. So of course we're all safe until we're suddenly not. If someone uses one-- and that will always be a possibility as long as we have them lying around-- then we're all so much irradiated dust floating about the upper atmosphere and coming down in black rain. And the grass and cockroaches that are left will be completely indifferent to whether or not nuclear weapons kept us from WWIII.

It's like two guys standing in a room with loaded pistols pointed at each other's heads saying, "Good thing we have these pistols. Otherwise we'd be in real trouble!"

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Great analogy, Commodore.

Nuclear weapons are simply a cynical block on social mobility. Without them, there could be free education and universal healthcare: things the banksters fear.

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Anyone interested in the safety of Nuclear Weapons should take a look at this:

http://digg.com/video/john-oliver-dismantles-our-lax-treatment-of-nuclear-weapons

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Were there any Iranians among the demonstrators?

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Nukes were rapidly pursued during WWII because of their potential for LOTS of damage from a SINGLE plane. While the scientists of the time had some idea about the weapon's lasting effects, any concerns were quashed in the race to be the first to have one. As Rush noted in their song "Manhattan Project":

"...to build the best big stick to turn the winning trick, but this was something more."

The U.S. dropped those two bombs on Japan without fully knowing what the effects of such weapons had. After the war when doctors and journalists were FINALLY allowed into those areas (the U.S. military prevented access for a time after Japan's surrender), the pictures that made it back to the States gave the public their first inclination of just how horrible these new weapons were. It was probably then when the anti-nuke campaign really got started. But nukes are an excellent example of a "Pandora's Box" analogy. Once the box was opened, you can never get everything that came out back in. Even if all the countries somehow miraculously decided to destroy all nukes, you'd have countries with persecution complexes (Hello North Korea!) still working in secret. Heck, even I know the basics behind constructing an A-bomb and I have never been in that industry. If you destroyed all the nukes, then the reconstruction in secret would begin anew. So while anti-nuke protesters are doing laudable work, their work is futile. Again quoting "Manhattan Project":

The big shots tried to hold it back Fools tried to wish it away The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say

While I wouldn't go so far as to call them "fools", I fear their crusade against nukes is doomed to failure.

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"It's like two guys standing in a room with loaded pistols pointed at each other's heads saying, "Good thing we have these pistols. Otherwise we'd be in real trouble!" - comments

How about nine guys in a dark room with the same scenario?

Nuff said, each step into the darkness assures no one leaves. Sick.

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“I hope we don’t have to have the NPT five years from now!” said 83-year-old Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow.

We will. Genie, bottle and all that. Still, there is always hope.

Regardless, of how you feel about the the issue, here is an interesting article with great pictures of Mrs. Thurlow. I don't know why, but I just love those old photos.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/this-is-what-i-saw-hiroshima-survivor-recounts-hell-on-earth-sixty-nine-years-later

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There are No true "Leaders" in this world today The Lust for power rather than humanity is crushing the world. At the end of the day we have only our voices to end this madness, this idolyc type of worship to power.

The End ?
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