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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (30065)	7/25/2005 12:46:03 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

Imo the deterrent to making nukes readily available to terrorists is risk of blowback. If you sell a suitcase nuke to someone who intends mass murder with it, how do you know it won't be you who he murders, or you who is ultimately held responsible for the mass murders? That is what made the Saddam-giving-WMDs-to-terrorists scenario so insane ... among the first uses of the WMDs would be to take out Saddam.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (30065)	7/25/2005 12:57:52 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362360

I think you missed my timeline on when the micro-nukes could be floating around. I pegged it to about 30 years from now, IF we keep on the same path as we are presently on. This is to say the current international law a.k.a law of the jungle, promotes both nuclear proliferation and radicalization. By the time this process comes to full fruitation, it will be too hard to put the genie back in the bottle. No government has to sell the material to terrorists 30 years from now. If there are enough sources around, they will find a way to get their hands on some.