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- nouman1989, on 10/19/2009, -2/+61I am not scared.I have this :
"How to dispose an Atomic Bomb" http://www.ehow.com/how_2312258_defuse-atomic-bomb ... - Greeneemer, on 10/20/2009, -3/+46Why is Iraq marked as one of the countries with "Recently terminated programmes"? I thought that it became quite clear recently that Iraq, in fact, did not have a nuclear weapons programme.
- warbird, on 10/20/2009, -0/+31The numbers are just "how many warheads could be made if you scrap together everything in nuclear power plants etc to make weapons". Countries like Belgium and Japan doesn't have an active weapons program.
- RunDiggMC, on 10/19/2009, -4/+31It's pronounced "nucular."
- Lucas123, on 10/19/2009, -1/+16Can't keep the genie in the bottle. What concerns me more is that we must not allow a mineshaft gap.
- Joak1m, on 10/19/2009, -1/+15Belgium is a surprise for me
- Nickedynick, on 10/20/2009, -0/+14Our (the UK's) number of weapons that can be made per square mile of land is insane!
According to Wolfram Alpha we could have one weapon for every 5.109 square miles. - Lonandubh, on 10/20/2009, -0/+13Not when we went to war (a second time), but I'm under the impression that they had had (once upon a time), but had done exactly what they'd been telling us (dismantled the program then destroyed the documentation of the dismantlement).
- Evari, on 10/20/2009, -1/+11Not much use if the bomb is on the tip of a missle and flying towards your face at hundreds of miles per hour.
- Nickedynick, on 10/20/2009, -1/+10Yeah, France's electricity system is pretty much entirely nuclear which explains their high number.
- valetudomexican, on 10/20/2009, -2/+11Shouldn't Israel be yellow?
- Arramol, on 10/20/2009, -1/+9I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
....although that might be the fluoride at work. - widgetmaker, on 10/20/2009, -0/+8You sir have no idea what you're talking about.
- virtualmode, on 10/20/2009, -2/+10try to learn geography, it helps sometimes.
- SniTT, on 10/20/2009, -0/+8I can tell you ( being a Belgian ) , that none of the nuclear weapons here are actually Belgian. I think most of them ( if not all ) are American weapons based in ' Kleine Brogel '. There are also nearly 2000 American troops here in Belgium to protect those bases and to make sure all military equipment gets to the warzones in Irak and Afghanistan though our harbor in Antwerp.
- pauliusuza, on 10/20/2009, -0/+7That's what NPT is for.
- overridemymind, on 10/20/2009, -0/+6"The 's' is silent"
- askantik, on 10/20/2009, -1/+7Want to take a wild guess at why most other countries won't disarm?
- trevor98, on 10/20/2009, -1/+6Looks like a map not an infographic.
- MeccaYdna, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5I was thinking the same thing....you guys must have a secret nuclear cave hidden somewhere...
- cavergeek, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5Our nuke program is the only thing keeping them from dropping the "cheese eating surrender monkey" guise and unleashing their baguette fueled terror upon the world.
- Zubata, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5Ask your parents.
- Nickedynick, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5Nah, what we do is sneak them into countries we want to attack and use it as an excuse. That's why no one found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - we'd already moved them to North Korea and Iran by then...
- askantik, on 10/20/2009, -3/+8It still blows my mind that we [America] think we should be able to tell other countries if they can or cannot have nukes...
yeah, dog, u can has 1 nuke and we can has 10,000 but u over there, u can has no nukes. - AgmLauncher, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5Uhh, it is yellow.....
- Codik, on 10/20/2009, -0/+5That number is the number of weapons that can be made from reprocessed plutonium stockpile. Not the number of nuclear weapons.
Anyway, it's not like having 100, 10,000 or 100,000 makes a difference to the end result. - 7aji, on 10/20/2009, -0/+4this might help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia - Zubata, on 10/20/2009, -0/+4If only our days of raising numbskulls were over.
- graemee, on 10/20/2009, -0/+4More than Burma
- jgzman, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3You can't determine a trend from a single data point.
Additionally, lots and lots of any given base is empty space. Check out Edwards air force base, sometime. I think there is more nothing than there is base. The surface area of nuclear facilities is a meaningless figure. - mrgerbek, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3Belgium doesn't have any nuclear weapons. They possess material that could be processed and turned in to weapons. Same goes for Germany, Switzerland and Japan, who all use plutonium for nuclear energy.
- morrisszyslak, on 10/20/2009, -2/+5The americans should be proud of the tens of thousands dead, they did provide the weapons, not to mention give him the green light to do what ever he wanted.
- OmNomNomBACON, on 10/19/2009, -9/+12In Soviet Russia, nuclear bomb drops you!
- MercenarySlick, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3Rather, that's what MAD is for.
- valetudomexican, on 10/20/2009, -0/+3Shouldn't I get a bigger monitor?
- lytener, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2why does Belgium need nuclear weapons?
- widgetmaker, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2I recently re-watched that film, still one of the best films ever made imho.
- opticwind, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Look at those numbers. Then remember it only takes 1 to level a city.
It's actually pretty impressive, isn't it? Don't get me wrong, the use of a nuke would be absolutely awful of course. But it's awe inspiring that we've developed weapons that could literally level a city. A big one at that. We all grew up with the knowledge of nukes, but try explaining that kind of warfare to someone a hundred years ago? Jesus, they'd never grasp the magnitude of it. Hell, I can't either. - startsomething7, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
- MeccaYdna, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2Not like it matters anyway, millions of people could be killed by a single bomb. Whether you(country) have 20 or 20,000 doesn't seem to effect the position on the scale of ability-to-kill-*****-everyone-ness.
Edit...nevermind, the dude below me already said it... - kinerry, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2looks like much less
always gotta have some though, in case one of the little guys gets cocky and decides to launch one - infecticide, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2Apparently my home province in Canada is top producer of Uranium in the world.
http://www.ir.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=3564,3541, ... - k3nt0456, on 10/20/2009, -0/+2funny how countries that already have nukes promote non proliferation
- Kingal, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1And what about Al Qaeda? Hamas? Taliban? They should be able to defend themselves. Just because we don't agree with them doesn't make them dumb, so they should be able to have nukes also. If it's not up to us to decide who should and shouldn't have them, who should it be up to? Who would you like to make the world police?
- opticwind, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Better than the alternative, I suppose.
- cryinlion85, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1i am qualified to defuse a snuke
- physco827, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1another exhibit of canada on strike?
/south park - chargerland, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1the USA isn't winning? damn!
- askantik, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1The quotation where he said they would wipe Israel off the map is completely up in the air-- it would have to be taken metaphorically (not literally) and then add in the fact that it was translated.
Mr. Douchebag, just because people disagree with you does not make them dumb. My point is that telling some countries it's okay and others they can't have nukes is called playing world police. And we are not the world police. Period. - crimsontwo, on 10/20/2009, -0/+1Was this map sponsored or post-processed by the government of Israel?
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