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Sent from my iPhone. On 2011-06-06, at 3:11 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:338704 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
