Nuclear weapons use more likely in future: US intelligence

[IDemo]

Yahoo News
Jim Mannion
Thu Nov 20, 3:45 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, US intelligence predicted Thursday in a report on global trends that forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war.

"The world of the near future will be subject to an increased likelihood of conflict over scarce resources, including food and water, and will be haunted by the persistence of rogue states and terrorist groups with greater access to nuclear weapons," said the report.

"Widening gaps in birth rates and wealth-to-poverty ratios, and the uneven impact of climate change, could further exacerbate tensions," it concludes.

Called "Global Trends 2025 - a Transformed World," the 121-page report was produced by the National Intelligence Council, a body of analysts from across the US intelligence community.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/pl_afp/usintelligenceforecastnuclear;_ylt=AnGSwxiJJk.GFMv45zWDIZOs0NUE

[TheWraith]

1. I don't agree.

The longer that we go without anyone using nukes, the greater the impediment is to anyone being the first to pull the trigger.

[PDJane]

2. Since the US is the only country to use nukes,

and the only country who continues to do so, I would have to say that if the US military says so, they are inevitably correct.

[lovuian]

3. Nukes are not a deterrent

when you release a Nuke you nuke yourself and the whole planet

and they have been baby nuking Iraq and Afghanistan and they still are losing

[bbinacan]

4. "baby nuking"?

that makes no sense in this context.