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To: bentway who wrote (527736)	11/13/2009 2:27:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) of 1576590

Giving up extra weapons is easy. Getting a country with nukes to give them up completely is rather hard, esp. if they have enemies or potential enemies themselves. To this point nuclear weapons have probably saved lives. A moving average of deaths from war per year had been shooting up rapidly for a long time right up to nuclear weapons where developed. Since then the major powers have mostly refrained from war against each other (in Korea we did fight China if you consider them a major power at that time, and there where some Soviet pilots in combat against Americans, but it wasn't a USSR/US war, and China wasn't a nuclear power until the 60s). The deterrence of major power war likely saved more lives than the hundreds of thousands killed in Japan (and the much lower and rather uncertain number killed by extra cancers or other negative effects of radiation from testing). OTOH that doesn't mean nuclear proliferation is generally a good thing, as more and more countries get nukes, and particularly as some of the more extreme countries get them, the risk of their use goes up.

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