• Guy leaks problems with UK nukes- Understandably gets arrested
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[QUOTE=DeEz;47775509]Are you seriously implying that we're here today because people were too lazy to cause nuclear annihilation?[/QUOTE] Too lazy for the nasty ideas at the higher tops to escalate to actual orders being given out and executed. [QUOTE=polarbear.;47775814]How the shit is having a concern for the safety of society being a psycho, or ignorant of the world?[/QUOTE] He's a psycho because of the rambling tone of the document and very dangerous subtones in the whole thing. It is too much like crazy people manifestos. [QUOTE=KaPow!;47774694]How is he going to suffer for nothing, people were letting him in without showing identification, he was allowed to wander about without anyone stopping him, how is that not a high security risk.[/QUOTE] The little things he didn't focus much on (but which actually matter) might change, but most of the things the guy was so impressed about will not change at all. Things will continue as they are. Things are always like this. The guard at the military base entrance might not even check your documents when you're driving in, because the head of the base cleared your entry. He will just look at you, mentally notice that nothing is obviously wrong with you, and trust his superior in the judgement of letting you in. No ID checks etc. Now try to enter the same base without first being cleared by the people in charge - suddenly you don't pass the guards mental check (were there supposed to be any people entering military base today?), and he'll be negative towards you, demand ID checks and other things. Nobody is randomly let into any areas, if you can enter an area, you're probably expected to be there (even if at the moment your security clearence is not yet adequate). I guess an example would be: tons of people are allowed to drive cars, and nothing in principial stops you from driving the car into a crowd of people. How often does this happen? Nobody is doing security checks on your car on whether you're allowed to be near people or no. Is it realistic to check every driver all the time on whether they are potentially a person to drive into a crowd of people or do other harm?
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;47776829]No I'm not making the assumption that they're easy to detonate... It just seems odd that such an expensive and dangerous weapon has no armed guard. I [I]think[/I] the motorway was closed but that was about it.[/QUOTE] When transporting volatile material, or something you want to protect, you don't drive around declaring "This is important. If you want to steal something important attack this." You do it quietly, just be one of the millions of other trucks on the motorway. I also think you're greatly overestimating the number of groups who would steal nuclear weapons and the lengths they'd go to. If you steal a nuke in England and you're attacking in England, where the fuck are you going to hide it without the army finding you? If you steal a nuke in England and you want to bring it to somewhere else in the world you have to transport it through Europe or over a fucking ocean. For a small group it would be easier to build a large conventional bomb, for a large group it would be easier to get uranium and build a nuke for themselves.
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