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Simple enough, do you think Israel, the Yanks, the UN, or anyone else will be able to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, by means fair or foul?
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31Yes, the Iranian nuke will be stopped.35.48%11No, no-one will stop Iran from going nuclear.58.06%18Radioactive simians prefer Iranian bananas.6.45%2Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Re: Will anyone stop the Iranian nuke?
I know the usual gang will laugh, but do you have an option for dramatic political change inside Iran, leading either to them giving up nukes, OR to them having nukes being in a dramatically different political context?Originally posted by Last Conformist
Simple enough, do you think Israel, the Yanks, the UN, or anyone else will be able to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, by means fair or foul?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Yeah, but 3 turns = 3 years!Originally posted by Provost Harrison
SDI will be complete in 3 turns...do not worry!
Or worse if you've played well!
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Re: Re: Will anyone stop the Iranian nuke?
Man, what?Originally posted by lord of the mark
I know the usual gang will laugh, but do you have an option for dramatic political change inside Iran, leading either to them giving up nukes, OR to them having nukes being in a dramatically different political context?
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but FYI my best guess is that Iran will continue to pursue nuclear weapons and that the rest of the world will decide they can live with a nuclear Iran in a political context much like today's.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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No one stopped NK, Israel, India, Pakistan, Soth Africa, China, France, the UK, or the USSR (not putting the US because they were first and working on it secretly).
Any state that feels they national interests demand they have a nuke will get them unless it is physically destroyed or conquered. The question is how to change that calculation of national interests. Threats of destruction or impoverishment have usually not worked, since they only intensify the logic for getting nukes.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Apparently France already has it.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
SDI will be complete in 3 turns...do not worry!Comment
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As long as they have Russia backing the development of thier nuclear weapons program, there will be no meaningful sanctions.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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I voted no, although I could see Israel carry out a dramatic, but ultimately futile*, military operation against its arch-nemesis.
(*By this, I mean they'll be able to take out surface and some sublevel installations, but they won't be able to get it all ... I'm sure Iran's nuclear program is like a metastasizing cancer tumor ... it has filaments and cells everywhere.)
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it would be great if someone (and by someone i mean israel) could stop iran going nuclear, but i can't see it happening myself."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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Yeah, but 3 turns = 3 years!
Or worse if you've played well!
Reinstitute slavery and sacrifice a bunch of people. Then you're at two years."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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You can't whip projects, noob.Comment
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Play the Flalalalalan song constantly in the research labs, and double you're productivity. 1.5 years."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Workshop everything and to hell with starvation and food...You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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