Did China's nuclear tests kill thousands and doom future generations?

...Spoken like a true Patriot...

When nations go to war fair sometimes goes by the way. We can only try to operate by the Geneava Conventions. Maybe the other side will to. The Japaneese chose not to. Study your history. Japan was not going to surrender. A low estimate for invasion fatalities is more than a million. That is in civilian losses. U.S. military deaths were estimated at a half a million.Do the math.
I detest war. This said, there are a lot of nations, cults,and people that would do us harm. Thankfully there are a lot of good men and women that have and still do protect us.

Actually, there are few nations that would do "us" harm. Many cults, even within and comprising of citizens of this country, do not have the power nor the means to do "us" harm. I do not believe that there is this "World against the US" scheme that the government and the media keeps trying to push. And the few nations that do wish to do "us" harm only wish to do harm because of an act that America is choosing to do. America chooses to blindly support Israel and defend Israel for any and everything that Israel is going through. So, America is bringing on the hate of these few nations, on its own. Do you really think it's this comic book foe scheme "they hate us because of our freedoms"? I am not a muslim nor a Jew for that matter, nor an anti-semite. I just do not like that this government is giving 30 billion dollars in aid to a country that is fully developed and modernized and bringing on heat from other nations in the process.

How many times has America not been in a war/invasion/conflict/etc in the past 233 years?

In war, all gloves are off...

Then what's to stop the jews from nuking the muslims? What's to stop the muslims from Nuking america? What's to keep america from nuking North Korea? I disagree with that statement. Even in war tact is evident. If you do not have tact and if "all gloves are off" then it is a free-for-all that just spirals out of control. Also, if that were true, we would have all been dead several times over.

If our luck holds out and we don't blow each other up, common sense and survival instinct will stop us. Since you brought up comic book scenarios, here's a doozy. The Jews start playing fair and the Palistinians throw thier arms open in the spirit of cooperation. If you think that either side in the ongoing middle east crisis is right, far sightedness ends at the tip of your nose.

Nope. Neither side is right. To me, it is all nothing more than a bunch of 13 year old kids having a pissing contest. Who has the biggest dick ER....I mean...arms stockpile. I doubt that any of them actually believe in the "Gods" they say they represent. I honestly believe it is all about who can manhandle the region best. (with $$$ being a large contribution). I kept trying to wrap my head around how all this hub-bub could be about some god and then I thought "Wait...what's 'better' than god? What could REALLY move someone?" Money was the answer I came to.

The jews need to stop pushing their Holocaust on everyone and get over themselves. The muslims need to chill out and stop stoning women and hating gays. And America needs to realize the truth....WW2 is OVER and Arab-Israel conflict is nothing more than a bad joke in the world and is really starting to screw America up in world opinion. Tell the Jews to chill their jets and tell the Muslims to get out of their caves (both physically and metaphorically).

Obama's next Press Conference should be really short and sweet.

"Israel: no more freebies, stop calling me, stop threatening the Arab world, and get a fucking life. The Arab World: women are equal, getting stoned is only good in groupies and hippie buses, Islam?...seriously, and get a fucking life...No seriously, the middle east, STOP THE BULLSHIT!" He should close this with "In Harmony". From the Little Mermaid series. (google the lyrics)

Since people started working with radioactive material, has more cancer been caused or cured?

Are you serious? Are we going to outlaw basements since people have died of radon poisoning? Or maybe we should get rid of concrete and bananas since both contain large amounts of naturally occurring radiative isotopes.

You know that a single....just one trans Continental flight results in more radiation exposure than working in a nuclear power plant. Airline pilots have the largest occupational exposure of all people in the world...by a lot. Should we do away with that as well?

You make very good points, actually I agree with everything you said. But you have to also think about why they hate us so much.

Did they just decide one day to hate the U.S. and Israel?

We need to change our ways, or we will just go from one enemy to the next, for the rest of our history.

Yeah but those countries haven't always been friendly to us either. There is a long standing misunderstanding that will not change with one president. I think it's dangerous having one who believes he can. Maybe he is just putting the hope out there... but I think North Korea is pretty scary. Then again, I guess we're pretty scary.

Guys - your opinions are respected - but here's something to think about. We're not evil - we just have needs. We're big, mighty, we feed the world - practically the entire world - and it would be nice if the dog didn't bite the hand that feeds it. I don't agree with a position that you need to come down to the level of your enemy - to extend a hand of friendship to one who calls you satan - Chavez, MadJob, etc. One needs to persistently choke them off, isolate them and if everything else fails - take out a big stick and threaten them - and better be ready to use it if the dog goes mad. Take a look at NK - compare to SK - dark vs. light, hunger vs. prosperity, etc, etc. There are some very telling sattelite fotos - google for them - wow!!! All the differences are due to the IDEOLOGY - here's your communism/socialism vs. Capitalism. Anyone with romantic doubts about Socialism need to get a reality check right there!!! You have to be an in-the-pink-cloud-flying leftard wacko to think that Socialism can EVER be superior to Capitalism as an economic system!!! The old Eastern Germany vs. Western Germany - same comparison. Now for all those who are trying to build Socialism in the good old USA - what a bunch of fuckheads - your damage will be quite expensive to fix and will take a looooong time to reverse... But that's a topic for an entirely another converstation...

who are these peacemakers you talk about?

you forgot N. Korea, India, France, England.

Why do you think that because you havent heard of it that it didnt happen? Nobody said that it was a secret and I dont doubt the us was fully aware. This info has probably always been here but because of the ethnic tension in that province any thing related to it has become newsworthy.