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UN should impose sanctions on US until it gets rid of nukes: Analyst
2017-10-28
Oh please, Br'er Fox, don't fling us in that brier-patch.
[PRESSTV] The United Nations should impose sanctions on the United States until it gets rid of its all nuclear weapons and closes its military bases around the world, an American political commentator says.

Bruce Gagnon, the coordinator at the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, told Press TV while commenting on the statement US Defense Secretary James Mattis made during his visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Friday.

Standing inside the DMZ that separates the two Koreas, Mattis said there is no change in US policy towards North Korea which he accused of building a nuclear arsenal to "threaten others with catastrophe."

"We stand shoulder to shoulder with you and the Korean people in confronting the threats posed by the Kim Jong-un regime," Mattis said alongside his South Korean counterpart Song Young-moo.

"North Korea provocations continue to threaten regional and world peace, and despite the unanimous condemnation by the United Nations Security Council, they still proceed," he said. "As the US secretary of state has made clear, our goal is not war, but rather the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."
Posted by:Fred

#14  Really? Perhaps we should impose sanctions on the UN? They pay us $10 trillion a year as a group or anyone failing to meet their payments gets removed from the UN and the surface of the planet. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2017-10-28 17:33  

#13  Nuclear reactors in space? Well, we have one big hydrogen bomb going off in the sun. Do you want that one shut down, genius?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-10-28 16:30  

#12  If it isn't a Security Council resolution, it's not enforceable. And if it were a Security Council resolution, the US would veto it. Probably, if they were smart, would the Russians, British, Chinese and French, so that nobody would get the idea to sanction them.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-10-28 14:25  

#11  Looks like Trump might withdraw from enough of the UN that it doesn't really matter.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-10-28 13:41  

#10  ...Would it be impolite of me to ask who's going to enforce those sanctions when we stop paying the fecking bills at the UN?

Well, that is the question, isn't it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-10-28 13:20  

#9  I remember reading somewhere that Russians try to build their own, and couldn't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-28 13:13  

#8  Grom, why do you say that?

The welding techniques required?
Posted by: Shipman    2017-10-28 13:02  

#7  The US can survive without the UN. The League of Nations UN won't survive without the US.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-10-28 09:32  

#6  ...Would it be impolite of me to ask who's going to enforce those sanctions when we stop paying the fecking bills at the UN?

Believe me, when the four-star lunches and expense accounts go away, the urge to sanction us will be throttled back considerably.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-10-28 08:00  

#5  This is why Earth is in quarantine.
No one wants your band of "Friendship" contaminating the Universe.

Stay in this Universe and do not piss off the "Heavenly Hosts".

You may see them next week pitching a bitch.
Posted by: newc   2017-10-28 04:24  

#4  They still couldn't build it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-28 03:21  

#3  Nobody but USA can build one.

Really? Can't have that! Better put the plans on the internet somewhere so the Norks and everyone else can swipe them.
Posted by: gorb   2017-10-28 03:18  

#2  Why the heck are they upset about nuclear power in space?

NERVA
Nobody but USA can build one.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-28 03:16  

#1  Why the heck are they upset about nuclear power in space?

Currently there are ZERO, NONE, NADA nuclear rockets or large reactors in space.

There are a few very small thermal nuke reactors in deep space. So small that they will not even power a decent floodlight. Russia is rumored to have a couple of nuke powered sats but if they do they are only a few watts more than the thermal nukes.

So why are they upset about Nuke Power in Space?

It would be smart to have some nuke power in deep space - Mars and further out could use real reactors for missions and sites. It would be nice to see Project Nerva type engines used for journeys to the further planets and the Ort Cloud as they could make mission transit times more reasonable.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-10-28 02:29  

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