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Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by ReptileMan on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:56PM (#43272268)
I have always consider trying to obtains nukes to be casus belli for preventive nuclear strikes.
Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:59PM (#43272316)
> have always consider trying to obtains nukes to be casus belli for preventive nuclear strikes

So did Churchill [1]. Unfortunately, that way be strategic nuclear war.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by rodgerd on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:32PM (#43272799)
And yet South Africa and Israel aren't glass.
Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by bagpuss on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:37PM (#43272879)
what happened on Bouvet Island? will we ever know?
Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by m4rtink on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:43PM (#43273763)
No one will ever confirm or deny what happened.
Re:Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protect... by throw0101d on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:23AM (#43279903)
> what happened on Bouvet Island? will we ever know?

For those unaware:

> The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. Today, most independent researchers believe that the flash was caused by a nuclear explosion[1][2][3]—an undeclared joint nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.[4][5]

> The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, and some information about the event remains classified by the US government.[5] While it has been suggested that the signal could have been caused by a meteoroid hitting the satellite, the previous 41 double flashes detected by the Vela satellites were caused by nuclear weapons tests.[6][7][8]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident