Two nuclear submarines, one British and one French collided earlier this month thanks to choppy seas (something that was clearly unforeseen). This story could have been about the insanity of allowing that to happen, asking how often this happens or that this was a possible cover up for a Metal Gear Solid-esque nuclear warhead theft.
But the thing that really stood out in this story is the panicked hyperbole expressed by the CND (Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament) spokesperson:
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament described the reported collision as “a nuclear nightmare of the highest order”.
The CND seem not to have realized that what they imagined happened didn’t actually happen. Still, why wait until armageddon to use the sentence “a nuclear nightmare of the highest order.”
The two submarines are key parts of each nation’s nuclear deterrent, and would have been carrying missiles, though both the UK and France have insisted there was no danger of a nuclear incident.
Not that they’d ever admit something like that was close to happening. Still, I like the idea that when the two submarines collide, instead of just a bit of scraping metal happening, a Shwarzenegger explosion occurs where a small bump leads quite literally to a massive nuclear explosion along with an awesome looking mushroom cloud.
LINK (BBC)
