Re: [FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Well written, Steve. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 8:03 PM Steve Smith wrote: > Pandora's cats are out of the bag and nothing will put them back. I'm > not religious but the whole "original sin" thing is a good

Re: [FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-28 Thread Steve Smith
Pandora's cats are out of the bag and nothing will put them back.   I'm not religious but the whole "original sin" thing is a good allegory for how hard (impossible) it is to go backwards... even when that would be the very best thing to do (were it possible).   There is no "undo" button...

Re: [FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-28 Thread Gillian Densmore
Huh? shame...no just curious. I was just asking how and why agreeing not use nukes was agreed on not to go there. In my head I was thinking; huh, wait a second. Didn't this get adressed several decades ago for the NPT( Nuclear non prolification Treaty?). Is russia and india posturing to agree

Re: [FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
How do you propose dissuading countries from building these weapons? Shaming them on mailing lists? On Aug 27, 2022, at 3:25 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:  https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/europe/russia-blocks-un-nuclear-disarmament-treaty-intl-hnk/index.html Am I going loony, I had thought

[FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-27 Thread Gillian Densmore
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/europe/russia-blocks-un-nuclear-disarmament-treaty-intl-hnk/index.html Am I going loony, I had thought after ultra conservatives of different interpretation in communism had tried to murder (1991 coup attempt) Gorbachev, and his part in draging russin into the