Slog - Comments on "Nucular" Weapons End-All, Be-All of Foreign Policy? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig Posted by (brand-spanking new) News Intern Roselle Kingsbury North Korea destroyed a cooling tower at its controversial Yonbyon reactor site today, one of the latest steps the state has taken to meet an agreement made with the United States and five other countries in late 2007. The Bush administration justified invasion of Iraq with seemingly erroneous accusations of harboring nuclear weapons, only to find that they could not be found. Are nuclear weapons really the issue here, especially when the concept of mutually assured destruction has effectively nullified the use of nuclear arms anyway? Both Japan and South Korea are... Copyright 2008 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:35:00 -0800 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:48:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by mpc It's only mutually assured destruction if the other side doesn't want to get annihilated by nukes either. The Soviets didn't want to be wiped out, so MAD worked. When you're dealing with regimes that are basically Shiite Death Cults (Iran) or that obviously don't give a fig about the condition of their population (NKorea), you can't count on MAD to prevent nukes from being popped off.

]]> mpc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061501 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:55:52 -0800 Comment by PC Also how is there MAD is when someone says we will nuke the shit out of Iran if they nuke Israel, and everyone goes "ooooh oooh! Too warmonger-y! Bad candidate bad candidate! Evil! She should be all peace talking like the other one and only HINT at any kind of violence because you know -- whatever you talk about it means you think about it and whatever you think about, the Universe makes it happen like it says in the Law of Attrraction! So please don't talk about what to do if diplomacy fails you are no different than evel Bush if you do!"

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061538 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061538 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:19:16 -0800 Comment by goyische kopf When are we going to ask Israel -- our favorite rogue nuclear state -- to disarm?

]]> goyische kopf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061545 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:23:00 -0800 Comment by COMTE Probably when someone has definitive evidence they actually possess nuclear weapons.

(Not saying they don't, just saying they've never acknowledged they DO, and SFAIAAL, nobody has actually PROVEN they do.)

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061558 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:33:54 -0800 Comment by Eric F @1: also required for MAD is enough distance that a first strike can be responded to before it actually hits. If you're talking about neighbors (say, India-Pakistan or N. and S. Korea) it doesn't work.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061598 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061598 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:06:19 -0800 Comment by Vince Just make a big deal (real or not) about stationing our own nukes in neighboring countries. Their own people will not care for having , say, one hundred nukes pointed at them because their government has a wrong headed policy. Eventually, they will be forced to come to their senses without a shot fired.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061609 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:13:36 -0800 Comment by skye iran's a shiite death cult? interesting.

]]> skye http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061742 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/nucular_weapons_end_all_be_all_of_foreig#c1061742 News Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:48:16 -0800