In the shadow of the bomb
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pecuniumI grew up under that shadow, matociquala had some things to say on the subject.
As time went by, the wall fell and peace seemed to be coming to the Middle East (the Dayton Accords, some rapprochement with Iran, the containment of Iraq... you know, all the failures of the Clinton Years, the effect of those weak-willed, goggle-eyed, touchy-feely "Leftists" who didn't understand the verities of the world) that shadow shrank.
Maia doesn't really understand it. My middle sisters don't understand it at all.
My youngest sister may.
Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor
This strikes me a a bad thing. It bothers me that the gov't knew of this and, pretty much seems not to care,"We discourage military use of the facility." Thanks guys, nice to know you're on top of this.
Iran is building a power plant. We say they could use it, in five to ten years, to make enriched uranium, and might be looking at acquiring, or generating, the equipment, technology and knowhow to build (in not less than six years, at the most speedy of the reasonable estimates I've seen) a bomb. We are hearing people say we need to have a war to fix this "imminent" threat. This despite them saying they are looking for power, and trying, some years ago, to arrange for inspections to assure the world they were doing nothing more than power generation.
"A small reactor already operating at the Khushab [in Pakistan][/i>site is capable of producing about 10 kilograms of plutonium a year, according to the analysis."
But we can sleep easy because "We discourage military use of the facility," and it isn't as if Pakistan has any ongoing conflicts with it's neighbors. It's not as if we just gave one of those neighbors (in contravention of the NPF) the green light to make as much enriched uranium, for military purposes. It's not as is one of those neighbors has a moderately volatile border with another nuclear power, which has interests in the region.
It's also not as if Pakistan isn't completely above suspicion in the support by some significan't portion of its population for Al Qa'eda.
No, we don't really have anything to worry about, certainly this wasn't something Congress might have wanted to know about.
No, the spread of the bomb, and the loss of MAD as a real policy, a modus vivendi between rational players, a real agreement that the damned things really are too horrible to use, that's the world our leaders are not merely fostering, but actively creating; and to go with it the stability of the regions gaining the bomb is fast falling apart.
matociquala had some things to say on the subject.As time went by, the wall fell and peace seemed to be coming to the Middle East (the Dayton Accords, some rapprochement with Iran, the containment of Iraq... you know, all the failures of the Clinton Years, the effect of those weak-willed, goggle-eyed, touchy-feely "Leftists" who didn't understand the verities of the world) that shadow shrank.
Maia doesn't really understand it. My middle sisters don't understand it at all.
My youngest sister may.
Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor
This strikes me a a bad thing. It bothers me that the gov't knew of this and, pretty much seems not to care,"We discourage military use of the facility." Thanks guys, nice to know you're on top of this.
Iran is building a power plant. We say they could use it, in five to ten years, to make enriched uranium, and might be looking at acquiring, or generating, the equipment, technology and knowhow to build (in not less than six years, at the most speedy of the reasonable estimates I've seen) a bomb. We are hearing people say we need to have a war to fix this "imminent" threat. This despite them saying they are looking for power, and trying, some years ago, to arrange for inspections to assure the world they were doing nothing more than power generation.
"A small reactor already operating at the Khushab [in Pakistan][/i>site is capable of producing about 10 kilograms of plutonium a year, according to the analysis."
But we can sleep easy because "We discourage military use of the facility," and it isn't as if Pakistan has any ongoing conflicts with it's neighbors. It's not as if we just gave one of those neighbors (in contravention of the NPF) the green light to make as much enriched uranium, for military purposes. It's not as is one of those neighbors has a moderately volatile border with another nuclear power, which has interests in the region.
It's also not as if Pakistan isn't completely above suspicion in the support by some significan't portion of its population for Al Qa'eda.
No, we don't really have anything to worry about, certainly this wasn't something Congress might have wanted to know about.
No, the spread of the bomb, and the loss of MAD as a real policy, a modus vivendi between rational players, a real agreement that the damned things really are too horrible to use, that's the world our leaders are not merely fostering, but actively creating; and to go with it the stability of the regions gaining the bomb is fast falling apart.
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Date: 2006-07-28 09:26 pm (UTC)