Reply #14: "Not all nuclear weapons are "nukes". Lets educate ourselves a bit."

[bananas]

> The current US policy is 100% "WE deserve them YOU don't" (where "WE"
> includes "Our Friends")...

The Bush administration is in favor of nuclear proliferation,
but as you say, they only want our allies to have it.
They outed Valerie Plame, they tried to weaken the NPT by getting waivers for India,
they even wanted to nuke Iran and break the taboo on using nukes.


> Not wishing to sidetrack the main discussion but I haven't seen any of
> this? Did you mean in E/E or just in some of the "gutter forums"?
> I know that nuclear *power stations* can be safe & clean but
> I can't imagine any sane person claiming that nuclear *weapons* are
> either safe or clean?!?!

"Not all nuclear weapons are "nukes". Lets educate ourselves a bit."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3059979

There were enough of those posts that someone started a rebuttal thread:
"Not really nukes? I call BULLSHIT"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3060468#3060496

There have been other people posting that Mutual Assured Destruction worked as a deterrent,
therefore every country should have thousands of nuclear weapons,
that would usher in an era of peace, just like the old west when everyone carried a gun,
there were never any shoot-outs or armed robberies or people shooting themselves in the foot accidently.

Some have said that Hiroshima and Nagasaki rebuilt, so the nukes couldn't have been so bad.
Others have said the nuclear genii is out of the bag so there's no point trying to stop it.