The clock is ticking Options

[City Park Dad]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...CU&refer=uk

Scientists today moved the minute- hand on the symbolic ``Doomsday Clock'' to five minutes to midnight, to indicate growing concerns about the global nuclear threat.

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[Snoopy]

Ahhhh the blissful ignorance of youth. Enjoy youth while you can let us old farts handle it for now. Some day when you get near voting age look at both sides of every issue and then decide. For example, while no one wants a nuke to be used, they likely are the ONLY reason we are a free nation today. Look at BOTH sides...

[coma]

I had to go to this chorus concert awhile ago for a friend and near the end they had a class from an elementary school sing a song... I forget what it was, but it was basically about world peace. By the end of it, I had tears in my eyes... not because of the song itself, but because I was wishing I was that age again only to be that naive.

[Idiot]

Ahhhh the blissful ignorance of youth. Enjoy youth while you can let us old farts handle it for now. Some day when you get near voting age look at both sides of every issue and then decide. For example, while no one wants a nuke to be used, they likely are the ONLY reason we are a free nation today. Look at BOTH sides...

A smart old fart once said:

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."

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[lil'moms]

Ahhhh the blissful ignorance of youth. Enjoy youth while you can let us old farts handle it for now. Some day when you get near voting age look at both sides of every issue and then decide. For example, while no one wants a nuke to be used, they likely are the ONLY reason we are a free nation today. Look at BOTH sides...

Haven't we been a free country for at least two centuries? (IMG:http://www.herald-mail.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

I will try better in the future to look at "BOTH" sides.

[Idiot]

I will try better in the future to look at "BOTH" sides.

That's a good attitude but remember that there doesn't have to always be only 2 sides to every issue. Republicans and democrats both would like you to think that.


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[Snoopy]

Haven't we been a free country for at least two centuries? (IMG:http://www.herald-mail.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Yep, but flintlock muskets would not keep it that way in today's world.

[Idiot]

At least N. Korea stopped making nukes.

I wouldn't believe that lil'moms.

It looks like lil'moms was right after all.

North Korea Destroys Tower at Nuclear Site


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The demolition on Friday of the cooling tower at the reactor complex in Yongbyon, North Korea.

By CHOE SANG-HUN

SEOUL, South Korea -- In a gesture demonstrating its commitment to halt its nuclear weapons program, North Korea blew up the most prominent symbol of its plutonium production Friday.

The 60-foot cooling tower at the North’s main nuclear power plant collapsed in a heap of shattered concrete and twisted steel, filmed by international and regional television broadcasters invited to witness the event.

The tower is a technically insignificant structure, relatively easy to rebuild. North Korea also has been disabling — but not destroying — more sensitive parts of the nuclear complex, such as the 5-megawatt reactor, a plant that makes its fuel and a laboratory that extracts plutonium from its spent fuel.

Nonetheless, the destruction of the tower, the most visible element of the nuclear complex at Yongbyon, 60 miles north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, affirmed the incremental progress that has been made in American-led multilateral efforts to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs.

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President Bush announced that Washington was removing North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, and issued a proclamation lifting some sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

And we did this by..... talking? Huh, imagine that. (IMG:http://www.herald-mail.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)


Good job George! (IMG:http://www.herald-mail.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


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[Guest_PhilPhanatic_*]

As with most nations of the world, we must take the information that is received and dissect it and pull out the bits of truth, and discard the rest.

North Korea is not dumb, they give us what they think we need and continue on with their activities but in a much more covert manner.

The US is guilty of this also. Does anyone believe we have demilitarized our entire arsenal of chemical weapons?

My guess would be no.

My guess on the article above is the facility was old and obsolete. North Korea blows it up in front of reporters. They post the picture world wide to say, "look, we are in compliance". The US throws them a few bones, and everyone is happy for a while.

Just my deranged take.

Cheers.

[Udmas]

Sorry Idiot, we did this by using bribery.

[Idiot]

Sorry Idiot, we did this by using bribery.

That's what politics is.