Oldbloke wrote:OK. I accept you are either Chinese or have the IQ of a peanut.
It's called "pay back" or a deterrent.
If they nuke Sydney or Melbourne our Virginia class sub would nuke Beijing and a couple more cities. Now do you understand? Or don't you read English?
你现在明白了吗?
So coming to personal insults when you cannot make a valid argument, very childish.
How many times do i have to tell you, nuclear missiles were never on offer. But obviously scotty from marketing did his market research very well and knew his intended audience just won't be able to comprehend that.
The simple fact is, we have signed the nuclear non profiliration treaty.
We have huge opposition against nuclear anything, let alone weapons.
The only reason we getting the subs is because as you said the reactor is fully sealed and fuelled for the life of the sub.
America is not giving as part of the deal any national security secrets about the sub, this includes the weapons system and ofcourse the reactor.
America has signed the nuclear non-profiliation treaty, and has agreed to never sell any nuclear weapons to anyone, haven't you noticed how no country has nuclear weapons that were either part of the former USSR (so inherited them) or developed them themselves.
The only thing we are good at is digging up things from the ground, the governments have never supported R&D, ill see myself waking in the moon before an Australian Government supports R&D and spends billions of dollars on staffing and research labs and a nuclear reactor to develop a nuclear warhead. Then they will need to spend billions to develop a new missle system to deliver the warhead. Cuz once again unless you want to buy from North Korea, China or Pakistan no one will give us a missle that can deliver a nuclear warhead. They just don't sell them at the local 7 Eleven mate.
My only word of wisdom, wishing really hard that you become the next Miss Universe will not make you Miss Universe

When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when ego and self-preservation are more important than national security — then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil