On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:41:26 +0530 "Ulhas Joglekar" <uvj at vsnl.com>
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > Personally, I am starting to think that nuclear
> > proliferation might not be such a bad thing after all
> > in the era of the Shrub/Rummy/Rice Doctrine
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> North Korea supplied missile technology to Pakistan. Any part of
> India can
> be attacked with nukes delivered by North Korean missiles. We don't
> need
> proliferation. We need nuclear disarmament.
Arguably, India would have attacked and overrun Pakistan during the last crisis between the two countries, over a year ago. That didn't happen, at least in part, due to the fact that the two countries are nuclear powers. I don't see nuclear disarmament happening in the Indian subcontinent without a genuine settlement of the issues (i.e. Kashmir) that have kept the two countries at odds with each over for the past half-century. In the mean time, the the possession of nukes by the two countries may help deter them from going to war with one another.
Jim F.
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> > "First we got the bomb and that was
> > good/Cause we love peace and motherhood/Then Russia
> > got the bomb but that's OK/The balnce of power is
> > preserved that way/Who's next?" (Tom Lehrer for you,
> > Catherine)
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