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Compared to Mao he was a *****cat.Taiwan is still run by the descendants of Chank Ki Chek and they will not be ruled by a Chinese occupation. China knows that. Taking a hard line towards Taipei is standard procedure for Chinese because of what a ganster Chang was. I think as long as the Mainland talks tough and makes provocative jestures in the straights periodically that's enough.
You think China has 200 bombs they can send to the US.
Do you ever read any history? Genocidal war is a time honored tradition in many cultures.What is the relative size and strength of the militaries? The goal in war is not and should not be to destroy all the people of a nation.
Just to check our moral compass here, aren't soldiers of a totalitarian state also "innocents?" If we have to kill millions of ignorant young Chinese men one day to defend Progressives, Liberals, Pacifists, Humanists and other mistakes of Social evolution, I want them to realize that they share in the responsibility.Why do you think killing millions of innocent Chinease will make us safer. Destroy their military, which should be doable, and they are no threat.
Besides, we have more than enough nukes now to destroy any country in it's totality without making new weapons.
Since China has 1,300 million people and the United States has less than a quarter of that, should the United States resume intensive studies of enhanced radiation weapons to prepare for possible future armed conflict with an enemy that could field an army four times the size of ours?
I argue that it may become necessary for the US to employ nuclear weapons on US soil, and in that event, it would be ideal to minimize the damage from blast and fallout and concentrate the weapon's effects on the enemy invaders.
Uh, that minimizes the radiation that actually has any effect. The greater the distance, especially when it comes to atmospheric particles that absorb the radiation, the less damage you do. You need to do close to the target. The optimal range is around 600 meters, which is about 1/3 of a mile which will still cause considerable damage to the target infrastructure. 10 km may not have any real impact whatsoever as that's 10,000 meters, well beyond the optimal range to remove armor.
You think China has 200 bombs they can send to the US.
Delivered in 30 minutes or less, or they're free.
Fast Neutrons aren't just "radiation", they are particles that travel great distances until "thermalized".
And the troops that don't die soon will be too sick to fight
It seems that without the proper education, most people don't understand the info they find on line...
A goal of war is to add territory; unless all of the people in this territory are either killed or chased out, nothing is accomplished...What is the relative size and strength of the militaries? The goal in war is not and should not be to destroy all the people of a nation.
Not as far as you think they do.
Is the Neutron Bomb Ready? - TIME
While this is true, neutron radiation does leave open significent periods of time where they can indeed act.
Your link really wasn't all that helpful. As explained earlier, the radius of lethal radiation isn't that far while the damage while far less than a regular nuclear weapon is still significant. Given the senario Scarecrow gave, we'd need to use thousands of these, resulting in massive overall damage. Scarecrow seems to think that the neutron bomb is a box that just releases neutrons and causes no physical damage.
A goal of war is to add territory; unless all of the people in this territory are either killed or chased out, nothing is accomplished...
Hopefully, man will become civilized and this sort of discussion would be mute.
You think China has 200 bombs they can send to the US.
The issue of the neutron bomb is whether we abandon the premise that everyone knows nuclear war would destroy civilization by radiation.
There is little point to counting nuclear weapons once each side's count goes into the hundreds.
China has already defeated the United States.
China shifted to a free enterprise and capitalism.
The United States has shifted to national socialism.
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