Originally Posted by hopefulfuturemarine

Such a nice thought...

Yeah I know right.

Originally Posted by FutureDevilDog

China is going to rise and be alone I think. They are really into the whole "superior race" idea. I just think that if anything were to happen, china would be the start.

China plans to invade US!

But in any event, the world has enough nukes to destroy the solar system, and I have no doubt in my mind they will be used.

You always say we will invade US, the western world, but the fact is that we were always invaded by others in this hundreds of yeards.....
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And that means what? From what I recall you were only invaded by Japan, could be wrong though.

Very, very wrong FDD. China was invaded and ruled by Mongols, Turks, Russians, Japanese, English, Portuguese, German, American and Dutch countries. And these facts are constantly being brought to the fore in Chinese history classes starting in elementary school. There are memorials everywhere with the words in Chinese "Never forget what they did to us". The xenophobia and hatred this causes to simmer just below the surface of the Chinese is a scarey reminder of the forces at play during Europe's last two great wars.

You brought up a good point. In the Middle East its the Crusades that are mentioned as if they were yesterday, creating the same type of mentality. The hatred this creates below the surface is one of the reasons there is always a hate against the West regardless of how nice we are to them. And just like Europes last two great wars...

Originally Posted by hopefulfuturemarine

Such a nice thought...
They say thee are enough nukes to blow up the world a few times over, so isn't it probable that everyone would just die immediately from hundreds of nukes? How many countries have nuclear capabilities, that we know of?
Hopeful

Currently, 7 nations are confirmed Nuclear Powers and these are:

- USA
- Russia
- China
- UK
- France
- India
- Pakistan
- Israel (posses Nukes, mostly provided by US)

Some other nations possess capability of Nuclear Technology. These are believed to be 16 in total including (North Korea, Brazil and South Africa)

The rest don't have this capability yet.

If some system somehow makes nukes impractical or impossible to deliver against one's enemies, then we're looking at a real possibility of WW3. Until that time, the 7 nuclear nations dare not fight each other. Without those nations, its not much of a "World War".

One curiosity. Did Russia take control of all the nuclear warheads of the former USSR?? I'm surprised if they did. The Ukraine, Belorussia and others would have surely fought to retain possession of some of them, especially those nuclear weapons that were still within their borders when the USSR was dissolved. Same goes for Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkestan, Armenia, Georgia .. etc. Its particularly important to remember that a huge number of nuclear silos and weapons were concentrated in and around Kazakstan. For the time being, most former Soviet states (not counting the Baltic States) cooperate with each other, but that doesn't mean they always will. How sure are we that Russia got every single nuclear weapon?

- Israel (posses Nukes, mostly provided by US)

um proof?

I mean im not agaisnst giving nukes to Israel. Heck lets give them a few minutmen.

Rabs, back during Desert Storm they admitted having nukes and threatened to use them on Iraq if the Scud attacks did not cease. It was one of the major coups of Bush Sr's diplomacy getting them to back off and not get involved, to trust the US implicitly with their security because it would have unravelled the coalition with the Arab states were Israel to become involved.

I know Israel had nukes Im just not to sure we gave them to them. I mean Israel is full of brilliant people. (most enginers per capita than anywere in the world) Im sure they could of done it on there own.