04-08-2009, 01:35 PM
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MVP
Join Date: May 2004
Age: 46
Posts: 10,164
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Re: Nuclear Weapons
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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin
If you are asking in a purely esoteric "Would you want a pony?" mode: Sure. If it guarranteed a nuclear weapon free world, I would be glad to be rid of our nuclear weapons. Even without nuclear weapons, the US has the most powerful military in the world by a large margin (I believe this to be true - further, without nukes, we could divert those expenses into strengthening our conventional forces even more).
As a practical matter, it's just not going to happen b/c no such guarrantee could ever be given.
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I agree totally.
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