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May refuses to answer if she knew about Trident test failure
May refuses to answer if she knew about Trident test failure
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It seems strange that the failure wasn't reported .. it's been four years since one was last tested and I would have thought that they would have launched another to ensure a pass was attained - if not two.
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Isn't this what testing is for. Nothing to see now move on.
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it reminds me of a bad but sad military action in the forties when the pilot of a gloucster gladiator fired the machine gun through the gaps in the propeller but the timing was faulty and it cut the propeller off the airplane !
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That was a classic .
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People can laugh but if their was mistake it would be innocent people who would pay with lives and health , not that the glorifying war -mongerers would worry about that
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Apparently 157 previous successful test?
These things aren't dumb shells, they are high tech, they go up, locate themslelves precisely using the stars, fine change trajectory, and come down where they want to go. They don't go off when they hit the ground, they go off at a set height to maximise effect. If they aren't armed they'll hit the ground, and I'd think make a deep crater or at most go off at a very low yield. I'd be very shocked, given any system is fallible, if they would arm if they thought they were totally off target! |
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What's the chances of that anxious?
Do you think they might have been getting tracked with a view to destroying if there was a danger of hat? |
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People can laugh but if their was mistake it would be innocent people who would pay with lives and health , not that the glorifying war -mongerers would worry about that
Totally true if we ever need to end up actually using nuclear weapon beyond their immense deterrent value we would never expect any innocent people to be included in the half a million people that get killed by it.  If we ever end up in the position of actually launching a nuke I doubt we are going to be saying to ourselves "nah, **** this, if it's accurate it won't kill any innocents but on the off chance it lands somewhere we don't want it to we might kill some innocent people as well". |
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99% success rate is not good enough if it can wipe out millions of people you have to make sure you kill the people
you intended to wipe out along with all the nature and ecosystem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrR-7_OBpA |
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people you have to make sure you kill the people
you intended to wipe out along It's a nuke not an AK47. You are going to kill people you didn't intend to kill anyway in the hope of our own survival. |
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If they are firing tridents games over anyway. HTH!
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one mistake and you accidentally kill 8 million people - what do you want... perfection.
remember the old toy atom bombs dropped on Japan... aww, so cute. now they have hydrogen bombs - beefy bombs. like dropping an elephant instead of a mouse. Ain't seen what one of them can do yet? beefy bombs.... need to see it? don't you..... |
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Good job it wasnt a retaliation effort, typical tory government....Growing inequality, strike action failing NHS failing prison, austerity and now cant f ucking shoot straight
Could always go ask Kim how its done  As for May not answering, well that politics innit? They cant tell you the truth they'd shrivel up like the witch in the wizard of Oz |
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I was told politics had changed!!
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"She looked very uncomfortable, but the useless Marr only asked her 4 times."
To be fair to Marr he only gave up after 4 times when she kept dodging the question. And finally he said, "Prime Minister did you know ?" (and she started to waffle on again) Then he said, "OK, I'm not going to get an answer." By continually refusing to answer the question she gave the answer, she must have known, but she wasn't going to say so. |
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17 million for every test
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they've shown every test from 1945 on YTUBE ?
WHY CAN'T THEY TALK ABOUT IT? |
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Tell Dell
Paxman asked Howard 19 times and Howard refused to reply. Result was Howard went. Marr should have asked her 19 times, IMO and referred her to the Paxman Howard Interview when she kept waffling. We need to hold our lying politicians to account, not just let them off. Yes she did look uncomfortable, yes she undoubtedly did know. But nail her on live TV. I would have done |
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Reporters have to walk a fine line between grilling for integrity sake and being in 'favour' with the interviewee for them to agree to be questioned.
We all would have continued to ask the question that wasnt answered in normal life, but this isnt normal life and those in power speak with forked tongue. |
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i can't reveal it - it's a top secret. I'm sorry my pension plan is a secret - i cannot divulge secrets. It's a secret that it is a secret. Stop talking to me.
let's look out the window and whistle now. |
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MoD still seem to be insisting that this particular test was a "success". Missile testing must be the equivalent of modern day O-levels
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If nothing else. The merest fact that someone called GoBallistic is posting on this thread makes it worthwhile.
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Same old song from the tories hiding behind the - National Security motto , and people still believe in Parliamentary democracy and the Bogeyman.
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Generally nearly all of them refuse to answer direct questions. It never changes
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Should never have been a problem here but May has created one by her usual priority of self-preservation. she's such a weasel.
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it doesn't matter which lot they are mostly only there for one thing - for themselves
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may would change her mind if it means gaining power
....and compared to thatcher in the same week what idiot was that ? |
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Is it not feasible that the people can justifiably request to know if the money spent on the defence budget has been well spent or not?
We paid for it and it failed to work, perhaps it never did properly work and the contracts have just been a bread dipping exercises since they know its very very unlikely nuclear war will break out....and if it did and it failed then it would all be over anyway. |
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it would likely be all over if it worked
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it's all moot now... i've completed my neutronium bomb. using radioactive cobalt salts in a matrix of distrompic alkaloids - my research is over and the prototype is ready - the blast radius will be thirty trillion miles.
zero hour is after i watch the startrek marathon on sky this week. nationhood - you puny humans are so primitive. |