XPost: alt.fan.furry, rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   B Sellers wrote:   
      
   >   
   >     We finished off the Cold War but so far Nuclear Disarmament   
   > is far from a reality.   
      
   	Barring a transformation of human beings to angels, there will never be   
   disarmament. Well, if our whole civilization collapses there'll be   
   nuclear disarmament, but that's a cure worse than the disease.   
      
   	That said, there's a hell of a lot fewer nukes in the world now than   
   there were when I was younger. DRASTICALLY fewer (and most, if not all,   
   of those currently credited to Russia or other former Soviet states are,   
   in all likelihood, actually nothing but annoyingly radioactive lumps. It   
   takes a lot of picky maintenance to make sure a nuke will do its thing   
   when fired).   
      
   	I'm not particularly afraid of nukes. No one's used them since we did,   
   in the most completely conclusive demonstration of "why you don't want   
   to continue this war" ever staged. I don't expect to see them used   
   again, except possibly by terrorists (who aren't likely to succeed   
   anyway because they don't generally have the technical competence   
   necessary).   
   	   
      
      
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