Author Topic: China and North Korea's Greatest Fear: Japan Armed with Lots of Nuclear Weapons  (Read 319 times)

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Offline DemolitionMan

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by Kyle Mizokami

Japan could invest in a small arsenal of land-based missiles, each carrying one or more nuclear warheads. The missiles could be stationed in hardened silos, like the American Minuteman III, or on mobile launchers like the Russian RS-24 Yars. A Japanese ICBM would be smaller, not needing the range and fuel to reach North America. The ability to reach all of China, European Russia and the Middle East would be sufficient.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/china-north-koreas-greatest-fear-japan-armed-lots-nuclear-19304
"Of Arms and Man I Sing"-The Aenid written by Virgil-Virgil commenced his epic story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome with the words: Arma virumque cano--"Of arms and man I sing.Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome