Over 30,000 nuclear warheads
Despite the much-ballyhooed "easing of tensions" since the cold war ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 30,000 nuclear warheads (bombs by any other name...) are still stored in the arsenals of the world's nuclear powers. Russia has over half of these, the US of A (or is that B these days?), a third or more, Israel most likely 200+ (estimates range from 200 all the way to 400 - depending upon who is doing the math and what their political agenda is....) , the UK, China and France about 500 apiece, India 70+, Pakistan 15 to 20, North Korea a couple, and there may still be a few hiding out in South Africa, which is the only country to have officially destroyed its nukes. Three disturbing developments as of 2005, are a) the possibility of criminals/terrorists acquiring or building an "outlaw bomb", or getting their hands on one of the 100 or so "suitcase nukes" that the Soviet Union lost track of when it fragmented, b) the certainty that the so-called "underground" network of nuclear materials and technology operated by Pakistan, still exists in some form, and c) the fact that both the US and Russia are actively renewing and seeking to "modernize" their nuclear arsenals - developing new kinds of weapons as well as maintaining a hard-line attitude regarding the conditions under which they would feel justified in using them.
In the US of A, they take the dictum "Do the crime, Do the time." seriously!! Of an estimated 10 million people in prisons worldwide (2006), about 2.2 million (93% of them men ) are in USA lock-ups , for an official incarceration rate of about 710 per 100,000. The next highest rates are in Russia (about 600 per 100,000), various post - Soviet countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.), at 400 to 550, and a smattering of central and south American countries - Bermuda, Belize, Suriname and Dominica (400 to 450), and (surprise...) the U.S. Virgin Islands at 530. China and North Korea probably have higher rates of imprisonment, but accurate information is difficult to come by for these two..... // The average rate of imprisonment for Europe is about 100 per 100,000, with Jolly olde Englande leading the pack at 141, and Iceland taking the hindmost at 37 - which translates to a total prison population of around a hundred.
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp
P.S.
We only use 10% of our brains on the average - - - complete tommyrot!!! The brain is an extremely complex organ, this is quite true, but a brief conversation with any neuroscientist will dispell any such notion in short order. That said, i would heartily agree with a variation of that notion - 90% of the time people don't critically examine the things they believe (often quite contrary to the most credible evidence....) to be "true"!! (or, to quote a famous North American "There is nothing so uncommon as (OUR) common sense"....).
2007-02-24 09:32:53
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answered by Anonymous
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No one needs to worry about the U.S. because we wont just randomly fire them at a country we don't like for no reason.
Iran is the one we don't need to forget because they are somewhat unpredictable.
2007-02-24 07:35:38
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answered by sup 3
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Our nukes are to defend us. Their pea shooters are for agression.
When they kill us they are terrorists, when we kill them it is to bring them democracy.
2007-02-24 07:45:52
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answered by Anonymous
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