i don’t know much about politics, military strategy, or history but i wonder if perhaps nuclear defence has a ‘use by date’. (food and stuff here has a ‘use by’ date stamped on it, and after that date it either goes off or it’s not so good).
maybe it’s the same with the bombs – the strategy has reached its ‘use by’ date and doesn’t work too well now. it was OK when there were only couple of superpower countries with the bomb, but now the number is growing and the chance of people other than nations or states getting a form of bomb seems to be increasing. supposedly the bomb had an effect on keeping peace, but this seemed to have been something of an illusion – they just kept on fighting wars in the regular way. and terrorist tactics seem to have made nuclear defences irrelevant anyway.
i don’t know if the bomb ever really did do any ‘good’ but it does seem to have reached its ‘use by’ date. i just hope that doesn’t mean it’s about to go off. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
the question seems to be not so much did they ever do any good, but is there any way we could ever get rid of them now? in both cases the answer is probably no.
