OMG Obama

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Registered: 08-24-2008
OMG Obama
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Sat, 09-20-2008 - 8:52pm

I did not know this about Barack Obama...


I just heard on talk radio that last year Obama said that he wants to completely disarm the states of nuclear weapons. The talk show host played a clip of him speaking last year.


I am not sure where he was and when he said this.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-16-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:25pm

"What is wrong with "trying" to get rid of ALL nuclear weapons."


Nothing.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-24-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:26pm
Other countries have them and are willing to use them. Is that a good enough reason?
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Registered: 02-27-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:33pm

Here is a pretty good synopsis:


As the realization of nuclear weapons grew near, Einstein looked beyond the current war to future problems that such weapons could bring. He wrote to physicist Niels Bohr in December 1944, "when the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life."


The atomic bombings of Japan occurred three months after the surrender of Germany, whose potential for creating a Nazi a-bomb had led Einstein to push for the development of an a-bomb for the Allies. Einstein withheld public comment on the atomic bombing of Japan until a year afterward. A short article on the front page of the New York Times contained his view: "Prof. Albert Einstein... said that he was sure that President Roosevelt would have forbidden the atomic bombing of Hiroshima had he been alive and that it was probably carried out to end the Pacific war before Russia could participate." ("Einstein Deplores Use of Atom Bomb", New York Times, 8/19/46, pg. 1). Einstein later wrote, "I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan." (Otto Nathan & Heinz Norden, editors, "Einstein on Peace", pg. 589).

In November 1954, five months before his death, Einstein summarized his feelings about his role in the creation of the atomic bomb: "I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them." (Clark, pg. 752).


http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-27-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:37pm

Which country has then and is willing to use them?

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:45pm

Yeah, because us blowing each other to bits is so much better?? I really don't think people get how horribly scary everyone holding their fingers over button is. It would just be a matter of which country dies first, period.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:47pm

Were dead either way. It's a matter of which country dies first.


iVillage Member
Registered: 07-16-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:53pm

If you find it ironic I'd rather we have nuclear weapons than be without in this day and age, so be it.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-16-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:55pm

"Yeah, because us blowing each other to bits is so much better??"


Nuclear weapons are more about the threat of use

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Registered: 04-10-2003
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 10:57pm

I do apologize.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-16-2008
In reply to: hillaryt123
Sat, 09-20-2008 - 11:02pm

Apology completely accepted.

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