🚀 go-pugleaf

Hell, Pat, let's just give everyone the bomb.

We'll get there real soon anyway: if North Korea manages to use nuclear
blackmail to conquer South Korea, whose nuclear program we discouraged
in the interests of non-proliferation, many countries around the world
will get the message that "proliferation to _us_ means our continued
existance instead of conquest by someone else who has the bomb."

In spite of a lot of official denial by U.S. officials that it couldn't
be, South Africa had the bomb. Details are fishy about where they tested
it, although you can rest assured that the NSF panel that studied those
suspicious Vela burst detections in the South Indian Ocean wasn't biased.
(wink, wink...).

Heck, people were suprised to find out that SWEDEN had produced nuclear
bomb "kits" that would have been rapidly assembled into working devices
in the event of invasion. I wouldn't be suprised if S. Korea or Taiwan
were considering the same course of action; they know they probably can't
rely on the U.S.

I don't know if any of this is a good idea or not, but you can rest
assured that our policies have lead to this set of possibilities.


-- 
Phil Fraering           "I did not eat Sir Eglemore. I only
pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu   chewed in self defense. But I didn't
318/261-9649             swallow." - Draco, Dragonheart
Will work for *tape*