Nuclear weapons

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Dec 14 10:19:31 PST 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Brad De Long wrote:
>
> > >This thread is a bit weird. Its always been my view that nukes should be
> > >eliminated, not spread around.
> > >
> >You're tellng me...
>
> Who's going to eliminate them?

Yes. The only weird thing about the thread would be any consideration of the topic without seeing that the dominant issue (to which all others are subordinated) is the possession of nuclear weapons by the only state ever to use them, and the state which, on the grounds of both capacity and willingness is the most serious threat to world peace and safety at the present time.

An abstract discussion of the elimination of nuclear weapons would be rather more than weird -- it would exist in never-never land.

Carrol



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