Bad ideas in peace

[dellarte]

Atoms for Peace

"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953."

 

[dellarte]

Atoms for Peace

"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.

Nuclear program of Iran

"Iran's nuclear program began under the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with support from the United States and Western Europe. In 1957, Iran and the US signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement as part of President Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, leading to the construction of Iran's first nuclear research facility Tehran."

 

[theprestige]

seems like good ideas to me

 

[Thermal]

Did we have some bad ideas about peace we wanted to discuss? I don't see anything sinister in the excerpt?

 

[jimbob]

I'll propose Project Ploughshare

 

[dellarte]

French Indochina

"Following World War II, the Allied powers agreed to return Indochina to French administration."

 

[jeremyp]

I'll propose Project Ploughshare

Is that the British version of Project Plowshare?

 

[jimbob]

Is that the British version of Project Plowshare?

Doh

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

The creation of the state of Israel.

 

[jimbob]

The creation of the state of Israel.

The way Britain partitioned many former colonies before independence.

 

[theprestige]

Giving Moscow an inch.

 

[jimbob]

Giving Moscow an inch.

Yup

From some time ago, the embedded video contains a quote from Lenin

"You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw"

This long lecture in Finnish from 2018 by a former Finnish intelligence colonel makes a similar point.

It's about Russian "strategic culture"

 

[Thermal]

I'll propose Project Ploughshare

The US beat you to it.

 

[jeremyp]

The US beat you to it.

No. Project Ploughshare was when the British government decided that all farmers should share one plough. I think they are doing it now with the Navy. All aircraft carriers should share one aircraft.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The creation of the state of Israel.

The Balfour Declaration, IIRC.

 

[dellarte]

Countries bombed by the United States since 1945