• @mlg@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      “Dear KSA, as a gift we are sending a nuke…”

      “Oh that’s nice, how very kind!”

      “It will arrive in approximately 10 minutes by air…”

      “Wow by airmail too!”

      “…At mach 4”

      “wait…”

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    52 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that if Iran acquired a nuclear weapon, his country would seek to do the same.

    “If they get one, we have to get one,” bin Salman said in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, adding that it would be necessary “for security reasons, and for balancing power in the Middle East, but we don’t want to see that.”

    The Crown Prince warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons and said, “We are concerned of any country getting a nuclear weapon,” when asked about Iran in particular.

    He suggested trying to get nuclear weapons in general is a fruitless endeavor, since deploying them is equivalent to declaring war on the world.

    On Tuesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the United States must “demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that it intends to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, from which former President Trump withdrew in 2018.

    The Biden administration was in talks with Iran to restart the agreement last year, but discussions fell through and the United States has not indicated an interest in reengaging in discussions.


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  • @Sylver@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    Makes sense if you think about it. Most sensible countries ultimately want to return to the 2015 deals and progress from there.

    • @greavous@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Why are American religo-fascists allowed so many? They only want 1 you big meanie! /s but only a little

    • @DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
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      -22 years ago

      Nothing on our planet has the enthalpy and matter control required to glass the crust into silicate dioxide crystals. I would know I have the idea.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      302 years ago

      That’s the point of Non-Proliferation Treaty, it’s to prevent another race for Weapon of Mass Destruction. If anything Iran should stop getting one.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        And the entire idea of nuclear non-proliferation is dead in the water for the foreseeable future, as a direct result of the full and complete abrogation of the Budapest Memorandum by all signatories except for the country that was the subject of the agreement (Ukraine). They surrendered their nukes in exchange for (what the Ukrainians thought were) ironclad agreements from all sides that their territorial integrity would be backstopped by three nuclear powers.

        That didn’t pan out as expected for Ukraine. In 2014, the global response (and more importantly, the response from the signatories who weren’t executing a semi-stealthy invasion in Ukraine) did pretty much nothing, and that lack of robust response led directly to the more active phase of the Ukrainian War from February 24, 2022 onwards.

        As an immediate result of the signatories (and the rest of the world) doing almost nothing back in 2024 2014 - and furthermore, unless the signatories, and all of Ukraine’s allies in general, stop pussy-footing around and actually provide a level of military aid that makes an actual long-term strategic difference - NOBODY is going to take the “give us your nukes and we’ll protect you” deal ever again. It’s been proven to be complete and utter bullshit. Moreover, if Ukraine still had nukes, Russia would never have chanced a nuclear response by invading them.

        All the Budapest Memorandum, the failure to enforce its structures, and the Ukraine invasion and war have accomplished at this point is to prove that nuclear weapons are, in fact, the final word in territorial integrity and national security. An adversary will NOT invade you if one of the possible responses is “we will turn your cities to glass”.

  • @AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    Nuclear winter fell way back in the pack, but it’s catching up to Climate Change, AI, and biological weapons as humanity’s self inflicted doom.

    Damn, I was rooting for Skynet.

    • @cyd@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      I almost wish for a nuclear winter. On account of patrolling the Mojave so much…

    • FuglyDuck
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      72 years ago

      i mean, if we suffer a nuclear winter… it would probably solve the AI problem… the (current) climate change problem, and, uh, a lot of the other problems as we no longer care about shit like having TP on the shelves or what color the new car is gonna be.

    • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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      142 years ago

      I’d deploy skynet tomorrow if I could. At least there’s a chance we win and there’s few enough people afterwards. Plus it’d be some epic history. Way better than “so they were selfish dumb assholes and made their own planet uninhabitable?” If some other sentient race comes along.

  • @Wahots@pawb.social
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    212 years ago

    Neither of those countries should have nukes. Crazy enough to use them. Of course, I also think no country should have nukes.