From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 11:47:57 MST
> (Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net>):
> Sometimes this list makes my head spin. I simply can't believe that anyone
> here would write what Ron h. just posted:
>
> > emlyn@healthsolve.com.au writes: Wait a second... the US
> > has weapons of mass destruction (and seems to want them),"
>
> > ##Emlyn, please don't make such unfounded charges without any
> > evidence. Of course I do understand why you wouldn't offer
> > evidence of that charge -- there isn't any.
>
> So Emlyn has to *prove* that the United States (like the UK and several
> other nation states) possesses and builds nuclear weapons?
>
> He has to provide *evidence* that possession of these weapons resulted from
> the US (and the other owners) wanting to possess them?
> Good bloody grief.
Yeah, that is a pretty stupid thing to say, but I'm sure he was
thinking bio- and chemical weapons, which the US is rather circumspect
about, as opposed to nuclear weapons which we are up front about. We've
certainly had bio/chem weapons in the past, and we freely admit to doing
"defensive" research, but the US does not publicly admit to having stores
of deliverable weapons. Frankly, I don't see why it's a big deal anyway.
A legitimate defense force has every right to use any available
technology to defend itself. Treaties and laws banning any technology
are stupid and counterproductive.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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