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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   §ñühw¤£f wrote:   
   > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> §ñühw¤£f wrote:   
   >>> 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?   
   >>   
   >>     No worse than any other toxic material, and requires technical   
   >> competence (though not quite as much) to assemble and deploy with   
   >> reasonable safety.   
   >>   
   >>     If you're not very careful, your people also become   
   >> easily-followed beacons.   
   >>   
   >   
   > So its the perfect weapon to be deployed by suicidal fundamentalists.   
   >   
   >   
      
   	Gods, no. There's a lot better weapons if you really want to do DAMAGE.   
      
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