XPost: alt.fan.furry, rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   §ñühw¤£f wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   > ZOMGS! why are you helping teh terraists!?!?   
   >   
      
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