[ExI] Gigideath was aboriginal humans

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 22:40:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On the other hand, in case you're interested in a more logical
> distribution
> of nuclear warfare potential, I have several ideas that might interest you
> and other readers.
>
> Instead of the present arrangement we could
>
> (A) choose a nation at random to possess all of America's nuclear-related
>      weapons. I suppose that there is just as good a chance of (most
>      likely) some African nation being as or more responsible than the
>      president of the U.S.
> (B) the United States could donate all of its nuclear arsenal to the U.N.,
>      although as in (A) most likely an African leader would end up in
>      control of it. But at least it would be fair.
> (C) go back to the cold-war (which turned out well, by the way) using
>      the MAD principle.  So tomorrow the U.S. could just give away
>      around half of its nuclear arsenal to, say, Russia or China.
>
> Or maybe you have some ideas of how an even better distribution
> of nuclear armaments could be devised that would be entirely
> superior to the present arrangement.
>

No, I think your ideas are good enough, even though admittedly they would be
hard to implement face to obvious resistance from the interested party.

Stefano Vaj
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