Booger wrote:Actually the more I think about it, which is more likely? A Muslim terrorist nuking a US city in revenge for the slaughter of his brethren around the globe by America, or Peak Oil? Surely a nuking of NYC will ruin our economy, reduce our oil consumption significantly, and make us a second rate power for time eternal. Perfect solution to the consumption crisis, and perfect revenge for the pain and suffering we have caused and continue to cause. Revenge of the third world for all the puppet dictatorships who we propped up, whose sole purpose was to award us their nation's mineral resources.
Jack wrote:Nonetheless, the results may not be as expected. The U.S. had plans in place to deal with a full nuclear exchange during the Soviet era - and survive intact as a first rate power. Perhaps such an attack would focus our national will and encourage us to deal more proactively with the existing threats.
The U.S. had plans in place to deal with a full nuclear exchange during the Soviet era
Concerned wrote:The U.S. had plans in place to deal with a full nuclear exchange during the Soviet era
The plan was called Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD for short
I think the result was a nuclear winter with the roaches surviving.
BastardSquad wrote:
I don't know how true this is,but I've heard several people say that if the bad guys had half a brain and really wanted to f**k the economy up they'd have hit the new york stock exchange. Anyone know if there's any truth to that?If it is true then a nuke in NYC would be very,very,very bad.
Booger wrote:The bomb would most likely be an atomic, not hydrogen bomb. Smaller in size, and less complex. The reason NYC would be chosen would be that it has high population density, it is an important financial center, and it is home to the largest Jewish population on earth. Prevailing winds would carry radioactive material into the lungs of millions of other souls living up and down the eastern seaboard.
DC would be another bet, and Moscow yet another. But none are as juicy as NYC, and the Muslims seem to keep attacking there, and only there.
It's only a matter of time with our current foreign policy. Thanks Bush!
Booger wrote: But none are as juicy as NYC, and the Muslims seem to keep attacking there, and only there.
Booger wrote:Thanks Bush!
Rather than witnessing peak oil supply or oil scarcity, we are now seeing a flood of new oil supplies across the world. Rather than worrying about where all the oil we will need in the future is going to come from, we are now talking about when global oil demand will peak. The timing of this is impossible to predict but what is clear is that we are entering the era of abundant oil and that is a paradigm shift for the whole energy industry as well as global geopolitics. Peak oil used to be seen as the point in time when the production of oil would reach a maximum before starting to decline. This would happen because new oil supplies were impossible or too expensive to be extracted and the general view was that, once the point of .
AdamB wrote:entering the era of abundant oil...
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