Ian WhiteSenate Passes Nuclear Arms Treaty
December 22nd 2010 21:09
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After the worrisome possibility that another vitally important bill would be scrapped by bureaucratic ineptitude, the senate has come through again. (And a tax cut for the wealthy wasn't needed this time) Thirteen republicans broke from their party to vote with the 56 Democrats making it a 71-26 vote in favor of the START treaty. The consent of the Russians is still needed but should merely be a formality. The accord will restart onsite inspections of nuclear weapons facilities. The smart thing is that inspectors from both sides will be able to come without scheduling and designating which site they wish to inspect. It also calls for a percentage decrease in the amount of weapons of mass destruction we each produce.
Some opponents of the bill think it weakens our defense. The other opponents (the rational) think it doesn't go far enough. I'm in the latter camp as I personally envision a world without nuclear weapons. Human's can't be trusted with devices this powerful. They can't even be trusted with kitchen knives. What if a country in the midst of another annual conflict dropped a bomb and wiped out hundreds of thousands of people? Can you imagine?...Wait...I'm sorry I'm being told this has in fact happened before...twice? Who did it?....America? Really? You sure? They wouldn't kill that many civilians...Oh...Okay then.
Seriously there are 25,000 nuclear weapons on this Earth, controlled mostly by America and Russia, the joint kings of genitalia measuring contests. To make matters worse, Israel has nuclear capabilities and based on their treatment of Palestinians and shared hatred with Iran, I don't even want handguns within a hundred miles of either of those places. If a nuclear weapon was even stolen from the plethora of available facilities we'd all be unprepared. The illusion of safety provided by the TSA junk scanners and code coloring books don't account for detonating warheads.
All of the countries need to come together and scrap nuclear weapons programs. There still remains plenty of technology available to efficiently kill each other with. And if you're holding on to nuclear weapons for fear of hostile Alien invaders, don't. The universe seems to have concentrated all the irrational hatred and bloodlust onto a little planet called Earth.
Some opponents of the bill think it weakens our defense. The other opponents (the rational) think it doesn't go far enough. I'm in the latter camp as I personally envision a world without nuclear weapons. Human's can't be trusted with devices this powerful. They can't even be trusted with kitchen knives. What if a country in the midst of another annual conflict dropped a bomb and wiped out hundreds of thousands of people? Can you imagine?...Wait...I'm sorry I'm being told this has in fact happened before...twice? Who did it?....America? Really? You sure? They wouldn't kill that many civilians...Oh...Okay then.
Seriously there are 25,000 nuclear weapons on this Earth, controlled mostly by America and Russia, the joint kings of genitalia measuring contests. To make matters worse, Israel has nuclear capabilities and based on their treatment of Palestinians and shared hatred with Iran, I don't even want handguns within a hundred miles of either of those places. If a nuclear weapon was even stolen from the plethora of available facilities we'd all be unprepared. The illusion of safety provided by the TSA junk scanners and code coloring books don't account for detonating warheads.
All of the countries need to come together and scrap nuclear weapons programs. There still remains plenty of technology available to efficiently kill each other with. And if you're holding on to nuclear weapons for fear of hostile Alien invaders, don't. The universe seems to have concentrated all the irrational hatred and bloodlust onto a little planet called Earth.
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