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The second inconvenient truth of our time : Comments

By Tilman Ruff and Tim Wright, published 15/2/2008

We must outlaw and eliminate nuclear weapons. If we don't they will eventually be used again and the effects will be catastrophic.

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"No task is more urgent than to destroy the nuclear monster before it destroys us". How naieve can you get? Of course we are going to be destroyed by it. We still have the same insane brains which created the weapons in the first place.
Posted by healthwatcher, Friday, 15 February 2008 9:16:37 AM
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i kind of enjoy reading about mice imploring cats to wear heavy boots. i suppose there is some private purpose in this silly article. it may just be 'feel good', that is common among latte lefties.

elites need armies, both for protection from neighbors, and more commonly from the lower class. armies like weapons, and nuclear bombs are best. nations with nuclear bombs don't get invaded.

as long as the rich rule, with assistance from the military, or the military rules, with assistance from the rich, the bomb is here to stay. if oz had citizen initiative, we mice could run our country for the people. global warming and nuclear warfare could be resisted effectively. but these writers, and all the latte chatterati, can't conceive of actually doing something to save the nation. like the born-slaves they are, the limit of their ambition is to implore massa' to stop doing what massa' wants to do. fat chance!
Posted by DEMOS, Friday, 15 February 2008 10:32:32 AM
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If Dr Tilman Ruff is "naive" to want to eliminate nuclear weapons, he is in very good company. Even Henry Kissinger along with other not-exactly-doves, have voiced this opinion. U.S. President John Kennedy was the first world leader to state that "we must eliminate these weapons of war before they eliminate us"

Polling patterns in the U.N. consistently show support for the elimination of nuclear weapons.The UN General Assembly approved a resolution initiated by New Zealand that would lead to the removal of all nuclear weapons from hair-trigger alert (high alert status). The recorded vote was 139 in favor and 3 against (U.S., UK, France) with 36 abstentions. China voted yes. Russia did not vote on this resolution. Document A/62/391

Opinion to get rid of nuclear weapons is supported in national polls, too, even including France.
Results of a February 2008 report from Canada from a new poll conducted by CBC shows that when it comes to nuclear weapons, 88% of Canadians believe they make the world a more dangerous place, while just 6% believe they make it safer.
Additionally, 73% support the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world through an enforceable agreement

World opinion has turned to see global warming as a danger to be countered. The politicians, and the big money corporations were slow to join this opinion.

But the same thing is surely happening, in regard to nuclear weapons. Millions of ordinary people world-wide, see what a pointless and suicidal path is the path of nuclear weaponry. As usual, the big boys of power and money are slow to cop on to the truth.

Dr Tilman Ruff is onto something here. Australia's Prime Minister has just shown leadership in reconciliation with aboriginal people.

The Australian government could again show leadership in the movement to free the world from the threat of nuclear weapons
Christina Macpherson www.antinuclear.net
Posted by ChristinaMac, Friday, 15 February 2008 10:43:09 AM
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YES, YES! LETS ALL STAND IN A CIRCLE HOLDING CANDLES AND BEGGING CIVILISED NATIONS TO DESTROY THEIR WEAPONS!

But last time we did this it was sponsored by the USSR, and the hard core of the peace movement were progressives dedicated primarily to countering US influence.

Are you going to get the mad states to do it first?
Posted by ChrisPer, Friday, 15 February 2008 12:10:34 PM
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It took less than one line to know what twits these long haired radical rat bags were.

The shocking truth is that we support hundreds of these twits, with our taxes, to a very good standard of living, in our universities.

We need a common sense test, to be applied to the entrance requirements for both for both students, & more importantly, staff.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 15 February 2008 12:25:41 PM
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Quite a number of skeptical responses and I can understand why, though I'd have thought the stakes were high enough to at least treat the issue seriously rather than dismissing it out of hand.
I've yet to see any analysis pointing out why the article is wrong.

Nuclear weapons have become far more powerful than the Nagasaki or Hiroshima bombs - after all, it's been decades.

The problem is, they're now so powerful, the fallout is likely to affect whichever country deploys them, then there's the retaliations to consider.

Which, to me, seems like a decidedly poor tool for anyone save the suicidal. It's as though someone is holding another person hostage, but instead of holding a gun to their head, they're strapped in dynamite.

Nobody can win in this situation - surely there are more focused means of military leverage that don't risk the entire planet.
Posted by TurnRightThenLeft, Friday, 15 February 2008 12:27:01 PM
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