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"John A. Stovall" <johnastovall@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >To prevent a North Korea from launching (or even threatening
> >to launch) their new ballistic nuclear missile on us or anyone
> >else perhaps?
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> And ABM system can deal with that and then you have a reasonable cause
> for war.

There is no such system deployed or currently deployable.

It is much like the ficticious "Sky Marshals" that most
people have been led to believe ride on every
commercial aircraft.

> Well when you say "..all Nuclear weapons NOT owned by the US..." you
> take in more than your examples.  I don't think the British, French,
> Russian or Chinese are just going to hand them over.

We could work that out, if we were serious.

> Nor do I cringe when Pakistan and India rattle sabers.  A little
> nuclear exchange there might not be very bad.

It would be for those who live there.  We still have
the power to just plain tell them to desist and make
it stick.

> Clue, Nuclear wars even big ones can be survived.

Yes, depending on the size of the war, the tonnage,
the fallout pattern, what you mean by survive, and
what happens to the economic and logistic supply
to the civilian population afterward.

Herb Martin
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