Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)The USA is a great experiment in how a country should be run.
The USA has faced threats to its very existence; from the Government of England originally, to more modern day threats from the Fascist powers of World War II, to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Thankfully, we have many Patriots that sacrificed their blood and their lives to maintain this great nation.
Even today; the USA has a nuclear-tipped armada of missiles arrayed against it, courtesy of Russia.
So how will we defend the USA from Russia's nuclear-tipped armada of missiles?
Do you think a bunch of "peaceniks" singing "Kumbayah" is going to deter Russia:
http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0228016
Do you think that will hold Russia's missiles at bay?
Alternatively, one might use the capabilities of the US Navy's fleet of Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile Subs:
If it's all the same to you; I put my trust in the US Navy.
The USS Tennessee launches 4 of her 24 missiles in about a minute; each of those missiles if they were live would have multiple nuclear warheads, each of which would be many times the destructive power of the World War II bombs. Someone would have a pretty bad day if that happened for real.
THAT is what keeps the peace.
PamW