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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dr. Doktor who wrote (301196)	9/26/2002 4:59:31 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't want my kids to grow up with that dark cloud of fear hanging over them. The technology of nuclear weapons, not just the weapons, but the whole technology to produce them, is more than 50 years old. That's a long time in the civilized world. The U.S. is not going to be able to keep the rest of the world in a technological backwater forever. This means that sooner than we may think the technology for bombs, for producing them in secret, and delivering them will be known to many countries. It's pretty much a certainty in another generation. We as a country and as a world are going to have to deal with that certainty. If the new world order for the next generation is geopolitical King of the Hill, our children are going to have to learn duck and cover as well as triage and radiation treatment. Their only hope is if the new world order has the types of checks and balances and interdependancies that make the idea of a superpower obsolete. Even then there may be the occasional rouge group, but at least we won't be the sole focus of their attention. TP