XPost: alt.fan.furry, rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: snuhwolf@yahoo.com   
      
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > 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).   
   >   
      
   G00gle "dirty bomb" sometime to understand the risk of having   
   unsupervised nuke material laying about, eh?   
      
   :)   
      
      
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