She's quite cute.
Although I had to Google who she was. Apparently Thatcher, the fucking mentalist, was prepared to go nuclear, if France didn't give us the override codes for the Argentinian missiles they'd bought off them.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:52, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Really?!
Eek
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Allegedly so.
Not nuclear to the Falklands, nuclear to Argentina. She was prepared to nuke their capital. Barking old shit.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)

She'd have done it, too.
Howling mad.
( Kroney, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:03, Reply)

Wouldn't surprise me....
One of the main reasons we won was our nuclear attack subs, which kept the enemy navy in harbour.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)

The subs in question weren't equipped with nuclear missiles though if my memory is correct
The 'nuclear' refers to nuclear-powered rather than nuclear weapons-carrying.

The Polaris boats would have been kept well away from the area, although they could have hit Argentina from pretty much anywhere on the planet.

I suspect the nuclear option was just a hypothetical exercise in case things went tits-up. I'd be amazed if the mad old bag would have seriously considered it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:15, Reply)

You imbecile, their navy didn't want to end up like the Belgrano

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)

I didn't disagree with that, you ignorant tattie-muncher
Read the fucking post.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

Spaz, the presence of the Conqueror kept their navy in port
you used it as an exercise in showing off that you know the difference between the propulsion system of a submarine and what comes out the top.

Christ have you never read commando
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:25, Reply)

I wasn't arguing that, you boss-eyed ignoramus
Presumably English is your second language.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:31, Reply)

You should revisit the post that I'm mocking, get someone to explain it to you and then go and kill yourself with the shame

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:33, Reply)

I was clarifying a point made by localboy, which he then agreed with.
If you can't understand that then I recommend that you DYAAKY.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:35, Reply)

Don't get me started on your fat wife whose kept the house leaving you in a bedsit cooking tins of beans on an iron.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:38, Reply)

I didn't. Clearly you have some kind of attention disorder.
Perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:41, Reply)

uv totes pwnd rory, iv lost all respect 4 him

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:53, Reply)

:(

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 12:02, Reply)

you are correct....
the subs were nuclear powered but armed only with normal torpedoes.

Apparently the Argentines were more worried about a conventional bombing of their capital by Vulcans than any nuclear option.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:22, Reply)