On 02/11/2005 11:10:33 AM, Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) wrote: > This is the doctrine of moral equivilence, and it is invalid. > There are objective differences between nations that indicate how > trustworthy they are with nuclear weaponry. Eliminating all > nuclear weapons is not possible (since we would retain the > knowledge to produce more). Giving every nation-state a nuclear > weapon would result in annihilation, since inevitably those > weapons would be used. Eventually weapons with similar destructive abilities will be cheap and available. One function of SF is to explore how we will or won't be prepared for such. What happens when a lowely Teckla acquires a Great Weapon? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/