[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
At 01:10 20/07/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>By "you," I have to presume you mean "me." No, I am not at likely to use
>this weapon in a rage against a loved one. Trust me.
This was not intended to suggest how "you" might behave, I don't
know you that well, it would have been less confusing for me to
have used the pronoun "one."
>It may sound "stupid" to you...I suggest you read up on evolutionary game
>theory. Sometimes one has no choice but to respond to an arms buildup.
>Unilateral disarmament rarely works.
There are surely alternatives to the extremes of unilateral
disarmament and an arms race? For instance, slowing down the
race? More often than not, it is the US that has upped the ante.
They consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Soviet
Union, new technologies that disrupted the status quo came
generally from the West.
Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 [email protected]
http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger [email protected] for public key