The hysteria is gone. The nukes are not.

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Here's something I've noticed: Putin is a religious nut who hates the West and has nukes. The Soviet Union had nukes and everyone thought that the Soviets would blow up the world.

Why isn't Putin generating the same hysteria? Is it anti-communist bias? Is it anti-atheist bias? You decide.

Its an invalid question for too many reasons to list.

But to sum it up: Everyone in America soils their pants at the thought that Iran will get nukes. And the Iranian regime is anything but "atheistic".

North Korea has nukes, and the means to deliver. They could put one or more in orbit.

They might. They also might nuke South Korea and Japan.

Putin will defend Russia. Do not attack or invade Russia, he will not use nukes.

China we think has 3000 underground, spread out, connected by underground rail.

North Korea is the most likely to use nukes, Putin is the sanest of the lot.

China is building large cities where no one lives, connected by high speed rail.

We think they have massive underground systems. They have actual plans for WWIII, they say China will have several hundred million survivors, and everyone else will die.

Israel is the nut case, saying that if they ever lose, they will nuke Europe, Russia, and the Arabs. We have to let them take over the world, because their god said so. They have also threatened to nuke Iran for years.

No need for hysteria, when someone starts it the whole planet will glow. Then it will get very dark and freeze. The darkness would last for five years, the cold would start an ice age, and by the time the dust settles, the ice melts, 20,000 years will have passed.

The radiation will have died down, it will be warm again, and we can just go about our business like nothing ever happened.

Empirically, save for some mostly-dead Americans, nobody's grandiosely dumb enough to nuke anybody. It runs contrary to homeostasis. Everyone's talking about a self-fulfilling prophecy with very little substantiating proof because it's kinda fun. Getting nuked requires enough provocation to get nuked. The day the IAEA starts selling reactors that turn warheads into fuel it's all good.

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Computer hack, bug. US system is old

The Cold War was an incredible show of theatrics for both sides. One that both sides' leaders created and exploited for as long as they could, at as high a political gain as they could. In that sense, it was wildly successful. The Russians convinced many of their people that Americans only cared about profit, religion and selfishness. The Americans convinced many of their people that Russians were poor, hungry mindless and godless. The ruse lasted a little more than the length of a full career in politics, but eventually it fell apart. Sociopaths - oops, I mean "politicians" on both sides then scrambled for a couple of decades and still haven't really found an adequate replacement to give them what their predecessors had. I find it interesting that conservatives on both sides have "found religion" as their next method to motivate and control the masses, though I can't say I am surprised. It's a ploy that has worked for some leaders in some regions for a couple thousand years, since agriculture and keeping livestock meant settling down into population dense cities, especially in Europe.

My point is, the politicians who use the threat of nuclear weapons as part of their show of power ("I'll protect you!") would never, ever want to give that power by actually destroying the civilization - and masses of people - they control.

Iran and DPRK have a very good relationship. They send representatives to each others countries to compare notes.Since the 1980s North Korea has become known as a reliable supplier of arms to other countries including Iran. Weapons sales between North Korea and Iran increased significantly during the Iran-Iraq war.This weapons sale relationship has expanded into further military cooperation including in the development of and exchange of nuclear technology.In addition to weapons, North Korea and Iran have an active exchange of military expertise particularly in relation to special operations and underground facilities

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/a ... 32,00.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/donaldkirk/ ... real-deal/
http://www.irantracker.org/foreign-rela ... -relations
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_01-02/IranNK
http://38north.org/wp-content/uploads/2 ... 122215.pdf

Blowing up a nuke is an extreme action that could wipe out life on Earth as we know it. That's why nukes are only used as threats. Going any further is insanely risky.

One day I'd like to work for the IAEA. They're exceptionally good at hot potato.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos