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Skriven 2006-06-21 12:31:27 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av Michiel van der Vlist
Ärende: Re: CopyRight Ownership Arguement
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Michiel,
 
> JD> It would make sense if all nations in the world had decimated their
> JD> stock of same, but that is not so.  Both the USA and Russia, along
> JD> with several other countries, have a stockpile of these weapons.
 
> Exactly. The US policy of denying Korea, Iran and some others nuclear
> weapons has zero credibility. It is like a chain smoking parent trying to
> keep their kids from smoking by telling them how bad it is.
 
Allow me to dissagree.
 
I have no problem with the US and Russia and China and France and the UK
keeping a balance in weaponry which at this moment in history seems to
guarantee a kind of a semblance of peace.
 
The cold war seems to be over for a large part and I have a certain trust that
none of these nations will bomb another nation to oblivion now that we know the
further implications of nuclear warfare. After all, what good is there in a war
that you will not survive yourself in some way.
 
Israel has been stopped from nuking Tripoli, India and Pakistan now have
respect for eachother.
 
The real scare to me is to put such a device in the hands of a religious
fanatic who believes it is justified to annihilate the 'infidels' and that God
will reward him with eternal martyrdom and a daily fresh batch of 70 virgins to
fornicate. Whether one believes in some form of a 'higher being' or not, to me
that is the perfect example of a 'civilisation' which has not passed the
mentality of the Middle Ages.
 
How to deal with it?
 
I do not have an answer at this moment. The knowledge to develop such a weapon
is now so broad based that almost every country with physics scholars can make
one. My own country, Belgium, has a nuclear research centre and the means to
make one but we don't, there's no reason/need to make one. Same with your
country, the Netherlands.
 
So why would someone else want to make such a weapon and by doing so risk the
wrath of 'the West'?
 
It may be shocking to some that I say this but when crazy people such as this
Iranian president call for the destruction of another sovereign country without
blinking an eye and in the same breath push forward to develop a nuclear weapon
with an obvious intent of using it, then I'm glad England is one hour flying to
the west, France is one hour to the south and Ramstein AFB is one hour to the
east. I have no confidence at all for the kind of nuclear umbrella that Russia
or China would be providing me.
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd

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