Would you be prepared to press the button?

[Worried Man Blues]

1. Use a cream 2. Racist

What if we were aiming at an Asteroid or Aliens?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Fair enough. Did you win?

Yes. Every time.

 

[beorhthelm]

Nuances of killing millions of people with one button, rendering the land inhabitable for centuries? The question is plain, simple and fair based on the definition of a psychopath.

no the question is not fair, you are assuming a pre-emptive first strike in the question. unless there is option for retaliatory strike only, the polls is massively biased. and you are not basing on definition of psychopath either, but your conception of psychopathic behavior, which is not necessarily the same as that required to invoke nuclear strike (even a first strike).

 

[Stat Brother]

This is me:-

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The USA have already used the bomb twice in 1945. We are told it was a good thing to do to end the 2nd world war. Is the USA a psychotic nation ?

Yes?

 

[Leyton Gull]

It's kept the world free of nuclear attacks for over 70 years.

So if there were no nuclear weapons there could have been a nuclear attack??

 

[Leyton Gull]

The USA have already used the bomb twice in 1945. We are told it was a good thing to do to end the 2nd world war. Is the USA a psychotic nation ?

Possibly psychotic and potentially psychopathic.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

So if there were no nuclear weapons there could have been a nuclear attack??

You can't uninvent something that's been invented.

 

[Man of Harveys]

What if we were aiming at an Asteroid or Aliens?

Or Space Invaders?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Does anyone really believe that the UK could make its own decision? We would only launch our own bomb under instructions from a Washington president who was too gutless to be seen to be taking the lead.

It really is time for the UK to opt out of playing that game.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Yes I'd press the button, but only if I can't get rid of the **** off great big spider that currently seems to be making itself at home in my living room.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Or Space Invaders?

Using nukes to blow up a packet of crisps?

Bit excessive if you ask me

 

[Bob!]

The USA have already used the bomb twice in 1945. We are told it was a good thing to do to end the 2nd world war. Is the USA a psychotic nation ?

We need a poll on this, but YES is the answer.

 

[pastafarian]

Does anyone really believe that the UK could make its own decision? We would only launch our own bomb under instructions from a Washington president who was too gutless to be seen to be taking the lead.

It really is time for the UK to opt out of playing that game.

The country has thankfully moved on from Tony "puppet" Blair

 

[father_and_son]

Where's the Croydon option?

If we had any nuclear missiles in Croydon, would they be pointed at ... Croydon?


"You irradiated your city! You irradiated your city!"

 

[LamieRobertson]

Is it just one button?

 

[Leyton Gull]

Thatcher said she'd have grave doubts about ever pushing the button. The question is academic anyway because a British PM would not be able to without the permission and codes from the USA. Corbyn is being treated unfairly by the media. He is doing well to fend them off so far. OK, he won't win the General Election but that's because the great British public seem to be resigned to having 2 faced politicians, even though they keep complaining about them.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Thatcher said she'd have grave doubts about ever pushing the button. The question is academic anyway because a British PM would not be able to without the permission and codes from the USA. Corbyn is being treated unfairly by the media. He is doing well to fend them off so far. OK, he won't win the General Election but that's because the great British public seem to be resigned to having 2 faced politicians, even though they keep complaining about them.

Why would the USA have codes to our weapons?

 

[pastafarian]

Is it just one button?

Yes
It will have a new design though if Jeremy wins in 2020

 

[Leyton Gull]

Why would the USA have codes to our weapons?

Because we do not actually have an 'independent deterrent'.