……. “The hundreds or thousands of nuclear weapons held by the USA were no help to them on 9/11”.
My argument? – Had France possessed them in 1940 – they would have not been occupied by the Germans.
Why don’t people get it? – Nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent. Their very existence means they will never be used and countries that possess them will never be occupied.
Hitler had nothing to lose by occupying France – he wasn’t faced with the potential consequential loss of all his great cities that would have made his strategy unbearable and pointless.
55 million people died in the 2nd world war – that sounds like “mass destruction” to me! Dozens of countries and territories were occupied. 100’s of millions of civilians were terrorised, abused and subjected including finally the Germans themselves. A free France would almost certainly have prevented much of the horror!
We’re all humanists Jeremy – none of us want or like conflict – but in the completely and unlikely scenario of an enemy force, sometime in the future, crossing Hadrian’s Wall from occupied Scotland with the intention of invading England, I just want to have the ultimate means available to deter them.
I can’t envisage any other circumstance when they would be used - but I consider that alone a price worth paying for!
My argument? – Had France possessed them in 1940 – they would have not been occupied by the Germans.
Why don’t people get it? – Nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent. Their very existence means they will never be used and countries that possess them will never be occupied.
Hitler had nothing to lose by occupying France – he wasn’t faced with the potential consequential loss of all his great cities that would have made his strategy unbearable and pointless.
55 million people died in the 2nd world war – that sounds like “mass destruction” to me! Dozens of countries and territories were occupied. 100’s of millions of civilians were terrorised, abused and subjected including finally the Germans themselves. A free France would almost certainly have prevented much of the horror!
We’re all humanists Jeremy – none of us want or like conflict – but in the completely and unlikely scenario of an enemy force, sometime in the future, crossing Hadrian’s Wall from occupied Scotland with the intention of invading England, I just want to have the ultimate means available to deter them.
I can’t envisage any other circumstance when they would be used - but I consider that alone a price worth paying for!
