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Civil nuclear reactors – soft targets for devastating attack

Its civil nuclear reactors are the “softest” and easiest targets for conventional military attack – with guaranteed devastating sequels

Nuclear Renaissance or The End of Nations ? : The Market Oracle, By Andrew McKillop,  15 Sept 10, “……..THE END OF THE NATION STATE , national security as we know it and with any real meaning no longer exists. Any country with large sized nuclear reactors is not defensible. Its has already positioned Weapons of Mass Destruction – for the enemy side – inside its national territory.

When both belligerent nations have nuclear reactors, they have guaranteed and massive Mutually Assured Destruction.When we take account of the full risks of the coming worldwide nuclear boom, the exploding number of civil reactor numbers, the full extent of fuel production and reprocessing, accumulated nuclear wastes, plutonium production and storage, and the spiralling amounts of ‘new’ nuclear waste being produced each day, the nation state itself has no remaining signification or meaning.

Its civil nuclear reactors are the “softest” and easiest targets for conventional military attack – with guaranteed devastating sequels.The nation state’s “prerogative” of making war, for example in Afghanistan and Iraq is no longer feasible or defensible – but is this known to politicians and the public ? Do they want to know this ? What is the level of debate on this subject ?

Nuclear Renaissance or The End of Nations ? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

September 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, reactors