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 amehta@cpsr.org http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta/ finger amehta@cerfnet.com for public key