View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)  
Old 10-08-2007
Tethys Tethys is offline
Eternal optimist

 
Member Since: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 1,989

Earth     Australia

Re: Beep…beep… beep - Fifty years since Sputnik.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedyer View Post
True, I mean WMD changed everything. The dropping of the atomic bomb especially. While people often debate on whether it should of been dropped or invented in the first place, I on the other hand can't imagine what the world would be like without it nukes. The Cold War was just the result of it, in which conflict didn't dissipate entirely but I do honestly believe that WWIII's delay has a lot to do with WMD. Fear keeps us in check after all, since reasonable/nice people don't seem to do it.
The computer ate my first reply to you. Let's try again...

Albeit that it is true that there has been no global conflict since the end of WWII, it's sobering to ponder the fact that a build up of WMD can go either way: it can deter WWIII (MAD), or lead to it.

Tethys
__________________
Quote:
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international
boundaries.
-- Harry S. Truman
Reply With Quote