>>> " You have a distinctly un-American point of view of world affairs.... " <<<
Maybe objective ? or maybe are you using hemispheric sense of the term American ?
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One of the views that I am trying to get across is that the UK,
like the Russians, the Germans, the Japanese, and the Belgians, are one of the nastier colonial powers, with an extensive track record of aggression. That is not to say that I would care to be subject to the French, Chinese, or Dutch empires, but they appear to have a better percentage track record on unprovoked attacks.
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Brazil now has possibly the most efficient gas centrifuge technology, and some current Uranium production. This could give them a quick path to gun device fission weapon, like the one South Africa was able to build for about 60 million a numbers of years ago. They also have lots of cheap electricity.
They could produce a small number of deliverable weapons - say 10 inside of 2 years, maybe as short as 15 months. Even shorter, if some of the test and engineering is done earlier, such as aerodynamic testing the actual bomb or rocket.
However, a small number of weapons is still not equal to the deterrent power that China has with 35 or so MIRV long range missiles, some intermediate missiles, and bomber aircraft.
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Since it is your favorite South American country, I would rather hear YOUR evaluation. |
