Pope condemns possession of nuclear weapons

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Suitcase nuclear bombs have been around for decades. Nothing official about Iran.
 
Yeah you are right they have been around for a long time. Nothing official on Iran like you said but I’m sure we are not 100% in the know on that. Either way it’s horrible.

God Bless
 
DaveBj said:
MA in Soviet Studies, 25 years as a Soviet Union analyst.
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Aren’t those degrees a bit outdated? The Soviet Union was a one party Communist dictatorship and it broke up and collapsed on December 26, 1991.Now we have the Russian Federation, which is a multi-party representative democracy, where the president is elected by popular vote. The Soviet Union had only one party, whereas the Russian Federation has more, such as the United Russia Party, the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and a Just Russia Party. AFAIK, CNN International broadcasts in Russia.
 
AlNg said:
Aren’t those degrees a bit outdated?
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Yes, the MA is; the BA not so much. However the Russians have not changed as much as some people might wish. They still want to dominate their neighbors, and they’re not any more fond of us than they were in the 1980s.

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Russia lost its satellite countries but Russia today is the same as it was. It annexed Crimea, it is causing trouble in Eastern Ukraine. Putin was KGB and that time was spent learning how to do things a certain way. He still has designers that can build weapons to match the US. Whatever is left of the Russian nuclear weapon stockpile is under his control. I can get The Moscow Times in English.

Looking at it from his point of view, a few things have happened to give him a reason to be concerned. The United States has sent tanks to an unknown location in Poland for storage. The Polish government recently purchased an anti-ballistic missile system from the US. Perhaps the US does not want to see Russia meddling in other former satellite countries.
 
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undead_rat said:
Jesus says that He is to bring “fire to the earth.” He does not say He is bringing fire for the enlightenment of men.
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It doesn’t say that it is for the destruction of men either. Plus that contradicts your interpretation of Genesis in which it is not an act of God, so this cannot possibly be about nuclear war because it’s supposed to occur because of man, not Jesus.
 
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edwest211 said:
Russia today is the same as it was.
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It is truly incredible that anyone would say so. How much time have you spent in Russia under communism and in Russia today?
Do you realize that under Stalin atheism was taught in Russian schools and many churches, synagogues and mosques were turned into anti-religious museums celebrating atheism? Apparently you know nothing about the situation today where religion is a mandatory subject in Russian Schools. In 2012 President Putin signed a decree according to which pupils choose as to whether they want classes in Orthodoxy, Buddhism, Judaism or Islam, or opt for “moral ethics”.
Under Stalin the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary was closed and then used as a Communist warehouse. Today the Catholic Cathedral is open and according to the posted schedule several Masses are said regularly every day. On Sunday, the schedule lists eleven Masses said from 8: 30 to 20: 00.



It is unbelievable that someone would assert that this is the way it was under Stalin.
 
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I think that what really happened was that the CIA enabled a right-wing coup in the Ukraine that forced out its elected president who was pro-Russian. This was a gross miscalculation by the Obama administration. Did Hillary Clinton really think that Russia was going to stand idly by while Ukraine joined NATO? Was Russia then supposed to withdraw from its naval bases in the Crimea?

I don’t believe that Russia has re-occupation designs on the former satellite territories of the USSR.
But back the bear into a corner, and you will get a response.
 
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Chernobyl is not a ticking time bomb anymore, and that it was built in the first place is a testament to human arrogance. A sophomore nuclear engineering student could tell you how absurdly unsafe the RBMK is.
 
What the Episcopal church does and what i do are two different things.
 
Again, you ignored the issue of disarmament. Please address the question posed to you.

Further, explain to me how radiation causes biological harm, and the different types of radiation.
 
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ProVobis said:
Nuclear arsenals were worthless on 9/11. Just sayin’
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Such an un-informed statement… This is akin to:

“Nuclear arsenals were worthless:
—When Sadam Hussein gassed his own people to death;
—When Hitler sent millions of propel to the gas chambers;
—When Mao killed 65 million? of his own people;
—When Pol Pot slaughtered 2-5 million? Cambodians, etc…”

I trust you weren’t sayin’ that… Evil has existed since men first walked the earth, and will be so beyond the nuclear age. A civilized society does not want wars. But wars happened, are happening and will be happening. That is reality… The best chance for peace is to prepare for both: peace and war—should it arise. All governments have the responsibility, entrusted by their own people, to protect them from harms—foreign or domestic. History has taught that countries/kingdoms, that were not properly prepared for wars, got invaded and their people were mistreated, killed or were at best at the mercy of the invaders.
 
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