It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the cold war. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html)
No one is stupid enought to attack the US, it is still a death sentance with or without nukes.
The only way to really attack the US is by long range missile. Either that or an epic sea battle. :)
north korean icbm's will make short work of ur capital cities
But this was the point I was trying to make. We had nukes, nobody really knew our policy on using them. So our enemies were more confused before. Then good 'ol Obama went redefining our policy, while declaring it to the world. Now our enemies see it clearly, we won't use nukes on them unless they themselves have nukes. So, lug all the non-nuclear missiles you want at us. And another point, this whole ambiguity could have been what has been keeping another major war at bay. We go to war with North Korea, we better be ready to go to war with China.
like japan sat out in ww2?
We all saw what happened to Iraq for attacking us.Speaking as a person who doesn't read or watch the news... when did Iraq attack us?
Speaking as a person who doesn't read or watch the news... when did Iraq attack us?
like japan sat out in ww2?
That's a completely different situation. We didn't have many allies that could help us. Japan knew that most of Europe was held down by Germany so the Americans would be the only ones fighting them. If China declared war, the whole UN would likely declare war, depending on the circumstances of course.
u do understand how much other countrys depend on chinas exports dont u
He's implying that even American allies would be hesitant to go to war with a country they are dependent on in trade.
China is in the UN too.
american troops are occupied, u would hope the un forces could stop them not your nations military u dont have the resources for another war
north Korea can already hit seol with artillery and missiles, they prob wont even need to go to war, just hit there cities till they crumble, north Korea has the military south Korea has the economy, you cant say a south Korean warship can be sunk with total loss of life from trained sailors and put it down as an accident if south Korea said north Korea sunk it people would demand a war south Korea couldn't win. even with us troops south Korea is just a puppet
the reason china cant attack is they simply done have the means to transport there some 2-3 million strong army quickly enough and there fleets are aging (although they have a few new destroyers recently built) they have 1 nuclear sub but plenty of older subs, less then five thousand active aircraft.... thats why they wont attack, exceptQuoteaccording to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the SIPRI Yearbook 1999, the size of the Chinese nuclear arsenal is about 400 warheads. The Bulletin estimates that 20 nuclear-armed missiles are deployed in the intercontinental role, and another 230 nuclear weapons on deployed (or can be deployed) on aircraft, missiles, and submarines with regional capabilities. The 150 remaining nuclear warheads are believed to be reserved for "tactical" uses (short-range missiles, low yield aircraft-dropped bombs, and possibly artillery shells or demolition munitions).QuoteChina currently maintains a minimal intercontinental nuclear deterrent using land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The Dong Feng-5 (DF-5) liquid-fueled missile, first deployed in 1981, has a range of 13,000 km and carries a single multi-megaton warhead. Twenty are believed to be deployed in central China, southwest of Beijing. Unlike China's earlier ballistic missiles, which were stored in caves and moved out for launch, the DF-5 can be launched directly from vertical silos—but only after a two-hour fueling process. In order to increase the survivability of the DF-5s, dummy silos are placed near the real silos. The DF-5's range gives it coverage of all of Asia and Europe, and most of the United States. The south-eastern US states are at the edge of the missile's range.
Obama has it in his head that America is the problem. And American policy is why Muslims hate us so much. Yeah Obama, why we're at it, lets all conform to radical Islam.
I heard : Obama is a muslim...
See, that quote is more sane than you made it. It just says we won't bring a RPG to a pistol duel.
No one is stupid enought to attack the US, it is still a death sentance with or without nukes.
2 come straight to mind:
Bin laden & Hussain.
Dead & Dead.