Apocalypse Soon

[FreedomAngel82]

I apologize if this has been posted before.

Link: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?
story_id=2829

Snip: <Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we've come. His
counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe
during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United
States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy
tool. To do so is immoral, illegal, and dreadfully dangerous.


It is time—well past time, in my view—for the United States to cease
its Cold War-style reliance on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy
tool. At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would
characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral,
illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous. The risk
of an accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch is unacceptably high.
Far from reducing these risks, the Bush administration has signaled
that it is committed to keeping the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a
mainstay of its military power—a commitment that is simultaneously
eroding the international norms that have limited the spread of
nuclear weapons and fissile materials for 50 years. Much of the
current U.S. nuclear policy has been in place since before I was
secretary of defense, and it has only grown more dangerous and
diplomatically destructive in the intervening years. >

[Robeysays]

1. that also what i belive,

nuclear warheads are pointless and to expensive.

[carnie_sf]

2. But

they certainly line the pockets of those defense contractors.