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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Does any one know, no bullshit-know, if Iran is building fission bombs?
 
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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro

AgentF posted:

OP I'm not 100% certain but I reckon Iran might know if Iran is building fission bombs.

You could be on to something here

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forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro

zimboe posted:

Dammit, I have proposed a serious question here.
Where did you do that? Must have missed it, just see some insane rambling about Iran having the big scary bomb.

zimboe posted:

Now in the old days, during the Cold War, which many Goonsirs are too young to have experienced- the nightmares that many children had at the prospect of instant annihilation at a moment's notice, as I had,
You Goons have never heard the air raid sirens in the 60's whooping and the silly "Duck and Cover" films they showed me. I knew as only a child that it was bullshit and lies.

the prospect of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) moderated ( a carefully chosen word) the Cold War between the old CCCP and USA.
This worked because neither civilization was irrational and wanted to survive.
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Now take the Israelis; culturally traumatized by the Holocaust, and the radical Iranians bound by the quest for a fictional Paradise.
I question if MAD will work against a culture that doesn't value reality.
Oh yes. The USA & the USSR were both well known for their rational actors like senile Leonid Brezhnev & Ronald Reagan, insane Josef Stalin, & paranoid lunatic Richard Nixon.

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