From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 04:22:14 MDT
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Spike Jones wrote:
> Today's nuclear weapons world consists of more than just the
> U.S. and Russia. Unfortunately. {8-[ spike
I like nukes as well as any other extropian, but to be honest, the less of
that crap we have, the lesser the probability that one of them will ruin
somebody's Sunday afternoon sometime.
And it's not just the nukes, it's any other WOMD. I don't rule out active
protection (like kinetic kill and even some limited star wars, in a
seat-of-the pant version), but it's passive protection that is
particularly good on ROI. So, if you want to protect people, you have to
work on infrastructure (sniffers, notification network, sterile seals,
shelters) and training (which is the bottleneck, most people just don't
like to be reminded that they're mortal, even if it's for a good reason).
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