"The future of nuclear weapons, I'm afraid, is quite bright,"

[fearnobush]

Daniel Ellsberg told an audience at Princeton University last week.
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Ellsberg is a former Defense Department employee who leaked the infamous Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971 because he thought the government was hiding evidence that they deceived the American public about the reasons for the Vietnam War. Now he warns that the Bush administration's arms policy undermines progress made toward nuclear safety.

While a comprehensive test ban was enacted by the Clinton administration, Ellsberg said, "the current administration is going the opposite direction in every respect."

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With America's finger still on the trigger today, the possibility that President Bush would have used nuclear weapons in Iraq was all too real, he said. Going to war based on the premise that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction "leaves the door open for nuclear use," Ellsberg said. The WMD term itself, he said, was invented to lump nuclear, chemical and biological weapons together in the interests of addressing Hussein's perceived threat.

"There were people who welcomed a precedent to using these to show that our threats were not bluffs. I think it was aimed at Iraq from '91 on," Ellsberg said.

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[ochazuke]

1. Beware the beast man

The technology is out there, the knowledge is out there. Is there a day that goes by when there are FEWER people who have knowledge needed to make a nuke?

Eventually, given enough time, we will get nuked (I can't understand why real estate in NYC keeps going up). 'Cause it doesn't look like people are getting more civilized.

If it's not nuclear weapons, it'll be some other technology. Use your imagination. Some punk kid uses his Pentium 1000 computer to design and manufacture some nano-vandals that infect humans and turn them into his personal slaves.

Damn them. Damn them all to hell.

(I apologize in advance for making light of such terrible things, but at least we should think about it.)

Did anyone get my movie reference? Can you finish the quote in the subject line?

[fearnobush]

2. "Beware the beast man for he is the devil's pawn.

Beware the beast man for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among god's primates he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea he will murder his brother to posses his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers for he will make a desert of his home and yours."

Sucks when they can predict the future like that.

[ochazuke]

3. You have studied the Lawgiver well

Did Rod Serling write that, or was it from the original novel?