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Sharina InterEarth Information Network (SIEIN) Special Report:

The Sharina Technocracy has instituted a major overhaul of its military, in light of dangerous shifts in the international scene, as well as a newly established doctrine of defense. Sharina's old military doctrines are being re-written and re-furbished, to help prepare Sharina for the new age upcoming in the international stage.

Towards this end, a fiscal review was held of Sharina's military budget, as well as several high level meeting of military strategists and tactical minds. After several months of intensive debate, a consesus has been reached by all parties concerned in the Sharina government.

Sharina shall no longer have a nuclear weapons program.

The military analysts have determined that nuclear weapons research programs and maintainence has been a colossal waste of money and resources that could be used elsewhere. Nuclear weapons are not useful whatsoever, for their side-effects far outweigh their benefits. Employing nuclear weapons guanatrees being nuked in return, and there is no guanatree that Sharina's nuclear weapons would ever reach their targets with the prevalance of SDI and anti-missile systems in use throughout the world. Thus, nuclear weapons benefits are mostly negated by those very issues. The terrible side-effects of nuclear weapons include lethal radiation that would last 24,000 years, catastrophic ecological damage, and rendering enormous tracts of land as wastelands, unable to be inhabited for hundreds of generations.

Therefore, with the scrapping of Sharina's nuclear weapons programs, as well as all Sharina nuclear weapons assets, it is estimated that Sharina will be able to save over $1.5 trillion annually. In addition, the resources and manpower would be put to far better use in Sharina's other military sectors, including Army, Navy, and Airforce.

Sharina shall be a shining beacon of light in the ever-growing nuclear profileration becoming prevalent throughout the world. Sharina shall lead by example by becoming a massive nation without nuclear weapons, and as a consquence, Sharina will be able to field better Army, Navy, and Airforce as a result.

Sharina shall preserve!

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Official Statement

The Grand Imperium of Risban thoroughly congratulates the Technocracy of Sharina in their proliferation of nuclear weapons. Ever since our latest emperor took control of the Imperium, we have slowly been destroying our nuclear arsenal. Now we have merely twenty nuclear weapons.

We hope that we may be able to achieve what you have achieved, and further hope that the rest of the world moves towards the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

-Alexander Perkins-
~Minister for Foreign Affairs~

Statement to the International Community:

Sharina has finally begun the process of 100% elimination and dismantling of every nuclear weapon that Sharina possesses. According to estimates, Sharina will be able to save $1 - 1.5 trillion annually by eliminating all the upkeep costs, maintainence costs, employment costs, and a variety of costs related to maintaining a nuclear weapons stockpile. It is estimated that Sharina will complete its dismantling program within two or three years.

The money that is saved will be diverted towards development and maintainence of even more effective and stronger SDI systems so that Sharina will not be a sitting duck for the nations hell-bent on acquiring or employing nuclear weapons. In addition, some of the saved money and resources will be diverted to enhancing Sharina's ongoing military modernization efforts, upgrading from a 1960's era of military equipment and technology to a truly ultra-modern one.

Sharina hopes that by setting this example, it will be able to inspire other nations not to seek a nuclear weapons resolution to warfare or protection. Nations like Feline Catfish, Carr Hall, USTIO, among others, will only end up failures if they continue their nuclear weapons programs. This is because of two reasons.

First, the threat of return nuclear fire. If any nation owning nuclear weapons use them, they are far more likely to be nuked in return. To compare, a nation with little to no nuclear WMD's risk little in return nuclear weapons exchange.

Second, nuclear weapons are quite expensive to maintain, both money-wise and resource-wise. Without nuclear weapons, nations will have far more money and resources to use to develop the other much more logical and reasonable aspects of their militaries, such as Airforce, Army, Navy, or anti-WMD systems like SDI.

Sharina is bold enough to take the first steps towards the goal of becoming a full non-nuclear weapon nation. Are you prepared to become as courageous, and follow in Sharina's footsteps?

~President Mina Veristek

"Your logic is skewed beyond belief. A nation such as ours, far from 'wasting money' or 'risking a return strike' when attacking your nation, would instead be able to fire nuclear weapons against Sharinan targets with impunity, with absolutely no risk of return fire. It should also be appreciated that our nation does not have nearly enough money to compete with conventional forces, as there are too many nations with multi-trillion defence budgets. In short - you may do what you like with your own nation, but I would appreciate you not suggesting that your skewed military thinking be applied in more sensible nations such as my own."

King George of Catfish.

Ah, I was waiting for those types of questions.

A nation such as ours, far from 'wasting money' or 'risking a return strike' when attacking your nation, would instead be able to fire nuclear weapons against Sharinan targets with impunity, with absolutely no risk of return fire.

You are forgetting two things. First, money and resources diverted from dismantling nuclear weapons can be applied towards enhancing or expanding existing SDI systems. With a much more effective SDI system, the risk of nuclear strikes actually succeeding aganist Sharina is drastically reduced.

Second, Sharina still maintains biological and chemical weapons. Those weapons are far more effective than nuclear weapons in many ways. Nuclear weapons destroy cities, factories, equipment, etc. in addition to rendering land un-livable for 24,000 years. A biological or chemical weapon kills all enemy soldiers, while leaving cities, factories, equipment, etc. intact for the taking by Sharina. What's more, those weapons do not cause extreme long-term damage as nuclear weapon radiation does.


In short - you may do what you like with your own nation, but I would appreciate you not suggesting that your skewed military thinking be applied in more sensible nations such as my own

Actually, I was referring to the future. In the future, when your nation is larger than it is currently, continued build-up of nuclear weapons will create an un-necessary drain on your military budgets that could be used for other things such as chemical weapons, enhanced SDI systems, more efficient ABM systems, etc.

The problem is that many small nations scramble to acquire nuclear weapons, oblivious to their cost in maintainence costs, resources, and most importantly of all, the destructive side-effects such as 24,000 year lethal nuclear radiation.


~President Mina Veristek

A biological or chemical weapons do not cause extreme long-term damage as nuclear weapon radiation does.


OOC:Not true. Mustard Gas(and in some cases, Nerve Gas) sticks to the ground and even today a ocassional French Farmer comes down with blisters from Mustard Gas that lingers.

Biological weapons are to hard too contain effectively. Not all biological weapons have cures and vaccines and qaurantines never work effectively(especially for zombie producing plagues). Due to these problems Biological Agents have the potential to reach even the country that first launched the weapon.

Also, Airborne Biological Agents(like Chemical Weapons) tend to linger for quite awhile before dieing out. This was the case when Japan planted Bio-Weapons in China during the Second World War. Even today a occasional person in Manchuria comes down with certain diseases that can also be used as biological weapons.

PS:Also, SDI wont protect you from nuclear tipped cruise missiles

Green Sun applauds Sharina for its dismantling of nuclear arms. Green Sun has at most five, two of which are confirmed to be privately owned by Mercenary groups within Green Sun. The otehr three aren't activated and are not ready for deployment. We plan to turn them into Collosus tank engines.

Any nation who says no to nukes is a smart nation, IMO.

Must we hijack threads, children?

Must we hijack threads, children?
Indeed. Thread split. Discussion is over here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=422438).

OOC:

I can pretty much simplify what's gonna happen next.

My SDI is enhanced by diverted funds and resources from the dismantled nuclear weapons program, making Sharina more impervious to nuke attacks than it was before. And also declare that I can still employ bio / chem weapons as WMD's but only if the enemy threatens or actually uses WMD's aganist me. Basically "Enemy did it first so his fault, not Sharina's fault".

Thus, the debate can continue in the other thread, but for all intents and purposes, Sharina will still maintain its stance on anti-nukes and powerful SDI defenses aganist nuke attacks.

OOC:

What happened to the debate posts regarding nuclear VS biological weapons?

I thought it was an interesting debate, which would have been great information for me to use IC'ly later on. I could have used the debate info to set up a IC situation, where my leaders answer questions at a press conference, or hold a debate with top military strategists and scientists.

Ah well, I guess that will never happen now. I might just as well declare that my SDI is enhanced by diverted funds and resources from the dismantled nuclear weapons program, making Sharina more impenetrable to nuke weapons than it was before. And also declare that I can still employ bio / chem weapons as WMD's but only if the enemy threatens or actually uses WMD's aganist me. Basically "Enemy did it first so his fault, not Sharina's fault".

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OOC: They're here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=422438)

"Your logic is skewed beyond belief. A nation such as ours, far from 'wasting money' or 'risking a return strike' when attacking your nation, would instead be able to fire nuclear weapons against Sharinan targets with impunity, with absolutely no risk of return fire. It should also be appreciated that our nation does not have nearly enough money to compete with conventional forces, as there are too many nations with multi-trillion defence budgets. In short - you may do what you like with your own nation, but I would appreciate you not suggesting that your skewed military thinking be applied in more sensible nations such as my own."

King George of Catfish.
If you fire nukes at Sharina, you will suffer a complete and massive nuclear counterstrike.