On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > For the world's sake, I hope and pray that you are right. Sadly, I > don't think you are. > Yeah i know. Mention the work "nukes" and everyone flips out like its 1962 all over again. Look, is it good that Iran got nukes (or will get soon)? Of course not. But there's a few things that our history has taught us: - the domino theory has been disproven - there is still only ONE country crazy enough to have used nukes in in the 60+ years of their existence - the theory of mutual destruction..while unpleasant and undesirable....works. - developing a "weapon" and constructing the capabilities to deploy those weapons effectively in a "nuclear weapon system"...are two ENTIRELY different beasts. The biggest threat from iran is further proliferation, but even that doesn't concern me as much now as it did just 10 or 20 years ago. I think what we are seeing these days is the dawning of the age of the Cyber Wars. In 20 years, nuclear weapons will be mostly useless against the weapons of the future, weapons that exist almost entirely in digital form. In my mind, any country that is just now coming up on nukes is already behind the game. The US (and any other country that wants to remain a world power) should be basically mothballing their nuke programs, and diverting those resources to work like MAD on cyber weapons programs, both offensive and defensive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338657 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
