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On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:15:57 -0300, wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:07:23 +1000, Jeßus
> wrote:
>
>>The fact that the state of Iran (as we know it) hasn't actually ever
>>started a war also means nothing, apparently. I see no reason why Iran
>>should not have nuclear power and weapons whilst other countries can,
>>based on their track record. That said, I'd prefer that neither
>>existed in any other country either.
>
>Why did nobody say anything when Israel disobeyed and went ahead and
>adopted nuclear power and weapons ?

Because it's Israel, and you can't question anything Israel does
(I realise it was a rhetorical question

>Personally, having seen
>Hiroshima as a kid, I would say nobody should have nuclear weapons.
>Coming from the UK I had seen plenty of bomb damage but even then I
>could realise Hiroshima was massive by comparison. People were still
>dying from the effects of the two bombs as late as the 1980s. It was
>brutal.

Brutal beyond imagination.

>I see the other day the Japanese apologised to Americans who worked in
>the mines when they were POWs. What about the British POWs who were
>there, including one of my uncles who went down on HMS Exeter after
>she went to the south China Sea from the Battle of the River Plate.

Same question is also applicable to other servicemen from other
countries too.

>He
>was in the mines at Nagasaki and told me they watched the bomb there
>like a firework display, he was lucky, he lived into his 90s despite
>that.

He's had quite a life...
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