From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 09:59:44 MST
John Grigg wrote:
>
> Anders wrote:
No, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
> I think that if the United States had realized, that far back in time, how much the threat of nuclear war - and later, nanotechnological war and biological war - would hang over the heads of future generations, the correct decision would have been to spend the lives necessary to subdue Japan the hard way. The US was the first to acquire nuclear weapons, and then immediately used them, in war, against a nonnuclear opponent's cities. This is not a good precedent if some country other than the US is the first to acquire military nanotechnology. This does not help the US's argument for nuclear nonproliferation.
> (end)
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