On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Before Vanunu went to the press, nobody even knew Israel *had*
nuclear weapons.
This is not true. Mordechai Vanunu told people in 1986. In my
personal memory, the story about Israeli nuclear weapons came out
1973, which is thirteen years before. Vanunu provided the newspapers
with pictures and a great story -- but he did not disclose the
weapons.
Hm, maybe we *should* provide them with nukes, just to make sure
that Israel won't use its nuclear weapons. After all, MAD worked
before so it could very well work again.
Mutual Assured Destruction only works as a peace-creation mechanism if
neither side has people who might be willing to commit suicide in an
attack on the other. If one side fears the other has people who are
willing to die in an attack, its optimal `games theory' strategy is to
attack first.
If you favor peace, your goal is to prevent any country that has or
has supported people willing to commit suicide in their attacks from
gaining nuclear, chemical, or biologial weapons.
--
Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises
http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.teak.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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