tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post3225806948702240541..comments2023-12-31T19:34:14.853-05:00Comments on Dymaxion World: The American impulse to misunderstand things continues unabatedjohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690430991814528863noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-66564279186700367502009-11-22T10:04:46.303-05:002009-11-22T10:04:46.303-05:00Did you just seriously suggest that getting rid o...Did you just seriously suggest that getting rid of nuclear energy would be a good way to get rid of nuclear weapons? That's a bit of fuzzy thinking.<br /><br />If you look to the root causes of nuclear weapons proliferation, there is a common thread that links all nuclear weapons states, both declared and suspected. They all felt the need to develop nuclear weapons because they felt threatened. The Soviet Union in response to the US, the UK, France and China in response to the USSR, India in response to China, Pakistan in response to India, and South Africa in response to, well, everybody. If a country feels threatened enough, they will develop nuclear weapons.<br /><br />Canada has never felt particularly threatened, with the US at our back, so we passed on our post-WWII opportunity to go down the nuclear weapon road.<br /><br />But the genie is out of the bottle. The technology of nuclear weapons is well-known, although it takes the resources of a nation-state to complete a weapon. You cannot make information go away, especially in today's world, so nuclear weapons technology would persist even in the absence of nuclear energy. <br /><br />Nuclear energy is not the cause of nuclear weapons proliferation, insecurity is.Brad Fnoreply@blogger.com