From: Ad 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam"
 wrote in
> message news:45ebfb80{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Hum. If so then the NPT is dead.
>
> As opposed to just being broken daily?
>

There's breaking it & there's absolutely voiding it's contents &
purpose. For the Nuclear states to say "never going to happen"
(as a recent UK whitepaper did) is to render the whole treaty into
Norwegian Blue Parrot status.

>> "No more nuclear secrets" where that includes the
nuclear powers. i.e.
>> every warhead accounted for (inc yield) in a public register & the
>> geographic location of said warhead marked.
>
> Yeah, that'll happen.
>

Could be done fairly easily. It's political will wotz missing & the
reality is that the big boys think everything is kewl with them keep a
holocaust potential so long as noone else does. That is unsustainable &
will lead to a large number of nuclear weapon states.

>> Steadily you could get down to 20 assembled warheads in monitored
>> sheds for each nuclear power.
>
> You don't understand, you can't get rid of nukes without the return of
> world wars.

Yes you can. Today's conventional weaponry is vastly more destructive than
it was 60 years ago.

> If you have nukes, you have no world wars or everyone dies,
> if you don't have nukes then world wars return because it becomes
> possible to win. If you have limited nukes (say 20 like you mentioned)
> then you don't have enough to assure that everyone dies so you may have
> world wars again.
>

I don't believe it is possible to win a world war. You might come out
unbeaten but not a winner.

I think most major powers realise that.

Pick on some small country OK...doable....occupying
China......nope..equally the PRC occupying The US or Russia or
India.....nope.

Adam

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