There are some folks who believe that the United States goes out of its way to start wars, but is that really a fair assessment? No, not really, still it's not to say that a rogue nation-state despot or dictator should go out of their way to provoke us either.
Not long ago, I was discussing this with an acquaintance, and they indicated that; "without wars, the defense industry would not exist in the end.
" Okay so, this is a fair assessment, the industry would cease to exist, but the companies would still exist, they'd just build different stuff, and re-invent themselves.
For instance, they might become Natural Disaster response companies, or design a Planetary Defense system to stop an incoming asteroid.
It's still defense in many regards.
Maybe they would go out and stop Cyclones, Hurricanes, and typhoons.
You see, they don't care what they build really; they just get a contract and set up a project management team, make prototypes, and then manufacture.
They could make day-care centers for kids or military bases, they don't care.
It's like lawyers, if they cannot practice one type of law, they will try to sue you for something else.
We don't live in a world where there is not some crisis to take care of.
And alas, it's almost a pipe dream to talk about anyway, especially in the present period because let's face it wars are not going away anytime soon.
So we could easily be 100 or 200 years from now before humans stop having wars.
And right now we have a bigger problem anyway and that is international terrorism and the prospects of a rogue nation state giving nuclear weapons to terrorists.
We definitely need a defense system to track, and stop such terrorist events, especially on soft targets.
Further, I don't see nations with nukes as so bad, more I am worried about lunatic dictators, or terrorists having them.
I'd rather the world didn't have nuclear weapons at all, but since so many nations do, and more will soon follow, I very much doubt any nation will get rid of them, because they will want to be able to protect themselves, against the last nation that refuses to get rid of them.
Now then, my acquaintance states the obvious; "But is it ever really possible to rationalize having them...
In many ways I think not.
It is Catch-22 for sure.
If one have them, more will want to have them, since they get afraid of the one nation getting them in the first place.
In the end it is only about killing in a big scale...
" This is of course true, and I wish it weren't, I wish we lived in a perfect world, but that's not the world we live in, so we must protect ourselves.
In my personal library I have almost a whole row of books on the topic of nuclear proliferation, the Cold War, and many reports put forth during the Cold War by the Rand Corporation.
I believe it is scary stuff, and it's quite unfortunate, but it is what it is and we must deal with it without blinders.
Please consider all this and think on it.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns you may e-mail me.
I will not accept e-mails from anti-nuclear power activists.
Not long ago, I was discussing this with an acquaintance, and they indicated that; "without wars, the defense industry would not exist in the end.
" Okay so, this is a fair assessment, the industry would cease to exist, but the companies would still exist, they'd just build different stuff, and re-invent themselves.
For instance, they might become Natural Disaster response companies, or design a Planetary Defense system to stop an incoming asteroid.
It's still defense in many regards.
Maybe they would go out and stop Cyclones, Hurricanes, and typhoons.
You see, they don't care what they build really; they just get a contract and set up a project management team, make prototypes, and then manufacture.
They could make day-care centers for kids or military bases, they don't care.
It's like lawyers, if they cannot practice one type of law, they will try to sue you for something else.
We don't live in a world where there is not some crisis to take care of.
And alas, it's almost a pipe dream to talk about anyway, especially in the present period because let's face it wars are not going away anytime soon.
So we could easily be 100 or 200 years from now before humans stop having wars.
And right now we have a bigger problem anyway and that is international terrorism and the prospects of a rogue nation state giving nuclear weapons to terrorists.
We definitely need a defense system to track, and stop such terrorist events, especially on soft targets.
Further, I don't see nations with nukes as so bad, more I am worried about lunatic dictators, or terrorists having them.
I'd rather the world didn't have nuclear weapons at all, but since so many nations do, and more will soon follow, I very much doubt any nation will get rid of them, because they will want to be able to protect themselves, against the last nation that refuses to get rid of them.
Now then, my acquaintance states the obvious; "But is it ever really possible to rationalize having them...
In many ways I think not.
It is Catch-22 for sure.
If one have them, more will want to have them, since they get afraid of the one nation getting them in the first place.
In the end it is only about killing in a big scale...
" This is of course true, and I wish it weren't, I wish we lived in a perfect world, but that's not the world we live in, so we must protect ourselves.
In my personal library I have almost a whole row of books on the topic of nuclear proliferation, the Cold War, and many reports put forth during the Cold War by the Rand Corporation.
I believe it is scary stuff, and it's quite unfortunate, but it is what it is and we must deal with it without blinders.
Please consider all this and think on it.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns you may e-mail me.
I will not accept e-mails from anti-nuclear power activists.
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