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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna

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To: jjs_ynot who wrote (35959)1/4/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 94695
 
Dave,

I wouldn't be too worried about Pakistani/Idian nuclear exchanges. Two of Pakistan's recent bomb tests were apparently fizzles.

But beyond that, Nuclear weapons are generally meant as defensive weapons meant to prevent a war of conquest against them. M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) is a tough game to play and there are no winners. But what is does achieve, minus an accidental nuclear exchange, is a general guarantee that any war will be limited, and not total.

Why do you think that so many countries, including Israel, have pursued or developed them?? It translates into security for their regimes and grudging respect from their neighbors(who then develop programs to build them).

Problem is.. until they develop Hydrogen Bomb capability with mega-ton yields, the damage that is inflicted on a country is relatively easy to repair.

Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those explosions ended WWII, but they sure didn't utterly destroy Japan.

When the propaganda from India and Pakistan start resembling that of N. Korea, then we can be afraid.

Regards,

Ron
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