From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 13:56:54 MST
If the true menace is not scuds carrying anthrax to a dozen people but nuclear weapons on ICBMs killing tens or hundreds of millions, then tell me: what are the Russian generals telling their political masters right now? Their nuclear weapons are largely in storage, not destroyed.
Will this scupper Bush's "gentleman's agreement" to increase the number of stored nuclear weapons?
Will Russia, unable to equal America technologically, return to power through simple hydrogen bombs?
Will China suddenly be happy with North Korea having the bomb?
Pushing around a small country that doesn't threaten you, just to demonstrate how big you are, and in the face of opposition from the equal largest military force in the world (Russia), can only be a dumb thing.
Whatever anyone says, until there are mountain/tower land-powered computer-controlled beam weapons in place, there are two superpowers in military terms. Real military power lies with the two nuclear superpowers. No force on Earth can stop either of these powers (except each other) from doing anything it wants, if it wants it sufficiently to use all the means at its disposal. The most Europe and China and Israel could do would be to do some lesser damage in return.
Whether this is right or wrong is another matter.
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