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   From: snuhwolf@yahoo.com   
      
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > §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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