North Korea - what the hell is happening?

[MrGongGong]

I can't recall when Israel was suffered a nuclear attack.

So the nuclear weapons don't make you safer at all then do they ?
They just cost millions that would be better spent on other things as no one is going to use them anyway (we hope )
having them doesn't stop aggression by others as the situation in Israel proves

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Ah yes, hope . . .

[teamsaint]

as opposed to certainty......

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

or indeed experience ...

[An_Inspector_Calls]

. . . perhaps blind faith is what you're thinking of? Historically certainty and experience don't seem to have passed muster.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Only one country has ever used nuclear weapons against another, and that country is supposed to be our friend. :erm:

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Only one country has ever used nuclear weapons against another, and that country is supposed to be our friend. :erm:

Cor you must be the silicon mass mate or a teacher cos we didnt do dates and wars and stuff in history at school cos its just remembering things and that and our teacher said that learning by vote I think she said was bad but I think there was a bit of a ding dong going then and that were the time the yanks did the chinese over cos the chinese was really bad and the yanks didnt

[MrGongGong]

Ah yes, hope . . .

and if they did we would all be screwed
so better we spend our money and resources on useful things
rather than this , if all the brilliant minds who spend (or should it be waste ?)
their lives developing Trident actually used their talents to do something useful
then we might be getting somewhere ..........

[Flosshilde]

Cor you must be the silicon mass mate or a teacher cos we didnt do dates and wars and stuff in history at school cos its just remembering things and that and our teacher said that learning by vote I think she said was bad but I think there was a bit of a ding dong going then and that were the time the yanks did the chinese over cos the chinese was really bad and the yanks didnt

Could you translate that into something understandable?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It sounds as though he was bullied at school by the history teacher.

[Flosshilde]

& everybody else?

[Simon]

Only one country has ever used nuclear weapons against another, and that country is supposed to be our friend. :erm:

Well, it certainly was our friend at the time and for many years after. Still in, in most ways. So I don't see what point you are trying to make. Perhaps it's just some sort of vague anti-American comment without much thought behind it, which is par for the course from some on here.

I don't expect you have much of a grasp of history, Alpie, but in case you're interested we'd just beaten the Axis powers in Europe and were trying to persuade the Japs to surrender before they cost any more Allied lives. Unfortunately, they kept refusing, and our people kept dying, so we had to use the only means we had to force them.

After that, our friend and its weapons helped us keep Stalin & Co at bay, until Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher between them managed to cool things down and get us towards a more sensible way of behaving.

But that said, please explain your point further: if I've misunderstood it, I apologise.

[An_Inspector_Calls]

It sounds as though he was bullied at school by the history teacher.

Ah, bless

[amateur51]

I don't expect you have much of a grasp of history, Alpie,

House Rules

Please treat other members respectfully, even/especially if you disagree with what they are saying;

[Bryn]

Response to #57:

Go and help rescue some sheep.

There was no justification whatever for using 'Fat Boy'.

Regarding the UN war against the DPRK, Stalin cleared the way for it by his tactics on the Security Council.