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2005-06-29 Europe

British ships carried atomic weapons in 1982 Falklands War

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Posted by Slomoper Omish1773 2005-06-29 10:41|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Carrying weapons to war -- what will Amnesty International say?

Posted by Matt 2005-06-29 12:01|| 2005-06-29 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 No plan to use 'em? Couse not, unless you count Plan B,C,D or E.

Posted by S Woodward 2005-06-29 12:21|| 2005-06-29 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 It was never as if they needed them though they do make for a nice attitude adjuster.

Posted by HoratioNelson 2005-06-29 12:45|| 2005-06-29 12:45|| Front Page Top

#4 So?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-29 12:51|| 2005-06-29 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 And this effects me how? I thought so. Go wring your hands some place someone cares.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-06-29 12:53|| 2005-06-29 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 According to Admiral Sandy Woodward's book a chunk of the force sent to the Falklands was doing wargames when the crisis happened. I think it would be unreasonable to expect them to head back to England and unload any non-PC weapons before going to war.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-29 17:11|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Just read the article, it says the same thing. So why did the CBC decide this is news?

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-29 17:12|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-29 17:12|| Front Page Top

#8 This is an old story, one of many cyclic anti-military stories that are trotted out periodically by professional fifth columnists. They apparently do this whenever they feel the need to further demonize the military on behalf of various revolutionary forces.

Other examples are the killing of German POWs by Brits and Americans at the end of World War 2; new witnesses to, or accounts of, massacres and atrocities in Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, etc; revelations of nefarious peacetime plots by the military in the remote past; obsolete contingency plans that are treated as new and ominous revelations, amazingly dangerous secret weapons like the Pluto nuclear-POWERED cruise missile, ad nauseum.
There are many others.
Those who exploit the media-conformist public's notoriously short attention span probably have a comprehensive list.
Come to think of it, a disgruntled ex-soldier claimed right after the Falklands War that 200 or more Argentine prisoners had been killed in cold blood after the battle at Goose Green. The loathesome Mirror trumpeted this for days, even though there was no corroborating evidence whatsoever. The report was hotly denied not just by the British paras who were being libelled, but by former Argentine prisoners who had been right on the spot of the alleged massacre.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-29 17:27|| 2005-06-29 17:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Come to think of it, a disgruntled ex-soldier claimed right after the Falklands War that 200 or more Argentine prisoners had been killed in cold blood after the battle at Goose Green

All but the prisoners part is true.
The Paras attacked out of the night outnumbered by only 5 to 1, it was a massacre. The Argentines never had a chance. It was compltely unsporting.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 18:17|| 2005-06-29 18:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Clarification requested, please, Ship: Who outnumbered whom? Thanks.

Posted by mom 2005-06-29 18:21|| 2005-06-29 18:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The Brits on the attack were outnumbered by about 5 to 1.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 18:29|| 2005-06-29 18:29|| Front Page Top

#12 I like the story of the Gurkhas who arrived on the Falklands only to find the Argies they were pitted up against surrendering to their reputation rather than fight against Gurkhas.

A side note many of the Gurkas got homesick when they saw the windswept wasteland of an island.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-29 18:33|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-29 18:33|| Front Page Top

#13 This account sez 3 to 1 and gives more credit to the defenders, it's new to me and likely accurate.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-29 18:41|| 2005-06-29 18:41|| Front Page Top

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