Re: the falklands

In message <bNOdneiJ_OwXlqDenZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>
kenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> In article <1128026142.947663.102210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> micoma@xxxxxxx (Mike Weeks) wrote:
>
> > Why is any of this even being suggested in the first place? All
> > this based on a very unconvincing initial post, w/ no follow up
> > whatsoever by that poster?
>
> Come to that why put a SSBN that close to Argentine weapons anyway? I
> have no idea of the range of Poseidon or Polaris, but to deter the
> Russians they had to be able to hit most of Russia from the
> mid-Atlantic.

I'm wondering whether he isn't confusing Renown with the RFA Resource, which
is (was?) an ammunition supply ship and which was stationed well to the east
of the Falklands for obvious reasons. She was rumoured to be equipped for
the transport of nuclear weapons (eg depth charges) but it is unlikely she
would have been carrying any at that time.

>
> Besides while actual movements of the subs was and probably is still
> classified, political decisions of the period are not. I find it
> almost impossible to believe that if nuking Argentina had been
> discussed at the Cabinet level it would not have leaked by now.
>

100 year rule would apply, but there would be no reason to consider it,
Argentina was not a nuclear power. They did have one nuclear power station
at San Nicolas and were contemplating building another at Chocon but that was
all.

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Graeme Wall
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