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Pick a Number Between One and SixPosted on Apr 10, 2010
“Between one and six.” That’s the number of nuclear weapons that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes North Korea to have, a rare public utterance on the estimated number of such weapons the Hermit Kingdom may possess. That’s one of the reasons “we will maintain our nuclear deterrent,” Clinton said. But she added that she is confident that the six-party disarmament talks (China, North and South Korea, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.) that fell apart last year will continue. A transcript of her speech is available at the State Department’s website.—JCL
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By EJH, April 10, 2010 at 5:03 pm Link to this comment
Why does anyone believe a word this woman says?
Report thishttp://theunpeople.blogspot.com/
By Vic Anderson, April 10, 2010 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
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Pick a number between 100 and 600! That’s the number of nukes ISRAEL has;
Report thiswhen only 100 is all that’s necessary to destroy Our WORLD, as we know it!!
NUKING FUTS!!!
By gerard, April 10, 2010 at 12:46 pm Link to this comment
Pick a number:
Report thisHow many nuclear bombs does the U.S. have?
How many are ready for instant release?
How many “reasons” are necessary to authorize their
release? Under what circumstances?
How many people are authorized to decide? Who
are they?
How many people are likely to be killed? Sickened?
How long afterward will people come down with
radiation sickness?
How many letters have you written to politicians
and editors on this subject? How many phone
calls? How many contributions to anti-nuclear
groups who protest, lobby and educate people
every day, every year?
How many people believe there’s nothing to do?
How many people are getting together to try to
create new ways to protest, to demand
initiatives toward worldwide elimination?
How many people are making continuous efforts to
educate others on the possibilities of a
nuclear-free world?
How many people are tired of hearing about it?
How many people think that believing in an
inevitable nuclear Armageddon leads to a
fatalism and submission similar to the effects
of believing in Biblical Armageddon?
By marcus medler, April 10, 2010 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment
I am puzzled that we hear so little from China or
Report thiseven S. Korea on this matter. The N. Korean
missiles are much more a threat to them. Maybe
China understands better the thinking of the
weak when threatened by the strong.